Weird Control Characters (HELP !)
10 posts by 3 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: March 14, 2008 (RSS)
By avrom - March 6, 2008
I'm on my second installation of CMS Builder and having two big problems I didn't have in Page Publisher. Please Help !
1. When a client adds a return "enter" on the editor it is creating a <p></p> tag without the non-breaking in the tag. This is causing all kinds of weird "A" symbols all over the text. Now I realize this may be an UTF-8 issue, but I am not willing to switch my web pages from charset=iso-8859-1 compliant code to UTF-8. Help what do I do ?? The editor should add the proper coding, otherwise all my clients will have problems all the time... This didn't happen in Page Publisher but is happening here.
2. Also Control characters such as "TM" trade mark etc. are not showing properly, even when they are inserted with the TinyMCE "CharMap" function.
3. The "Paste From Word" feature worked fine in Page Publisher but will not work properly in CMS Builder with the new TinyMCE Editor. Any ideas why ??
Anyway I always appreciate your help and support, I just want something that is going to work well with my clients and not cause a lot of problems. Most people need to paste their content from MS Word and be able to add empty paragraphs for spacing, etc.
Thanks so much :)
Avrom
Re: [virgodesign] Weird Control Characters (HELP !)
By avrom - March 6, 2008
I checked through the forums. I tried the UTF-8 and it worked fine, issue solved. :) Now to see if I can get the paste from word feature working...
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
Re: [virgodesign] Weird Control Characters (HELP !)
By Dave - March 6, 2008
TinyMCE 3 has some addons and features from paste from word, we just haven't turned them on or explored them yet.
Did you have an extra button for that in Page Publisher or what was different from how it's working now?
Let me know and I'm sure we can get it working the way you want or very close.
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Re: [Dave] Weird Control Characters (HELP !)
By avrom - March 6, 2008
Thank you, yes the UTF-8 encoding solved the issue, and I assume really has no impact on web browsing.
I had the Paste from Word feature working on 3 sites with Page Publisher no problem, both in IE and Mozilla. But it didn't work with the new TinyMCE editor in CMS Builder. I would be pleased to try it out again and have you help me with that. I will get it installed and then email you the login info.
Thank you very much.
Re: [virgodesign] Weird Control Characters (HELP !)
By Dave - March 6, 2008
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Re: [Dave] Weird Control Characters (HELP !)
By avrom - March 6, 2008
The only customization was to add the extra "paste from word" button into the editor, and upload the "paste" utility into the plug-ins. So no coding modifications or anything like that.
Re: [virgodesign] Weird Control Characters (HELP !)
By Dave - March 6, 2008
Upload the files from the attached zip (tinymce_paste_plugin.zip) to /cmsAdmin/tinymce3/plugins/paste/*.* being sure to maintain the directory structure.
Open /lib/menus/default/edit.php and search for "inlinepopups". Replace that line with this:
plugins: 'inlinepopups,contextmenu,table,fullscreen,paste',Open /lib/menus/default/edit_functions.php and search for "inlinepopups". Replace that line with this:
plugins: 'inlinepopups,contextmenu,table,fullscreen,paste',In the same file, search for "theme_advanced_buttons2" and replace that line with this (or add the 'pastetext' and 'pasteword' buttons where ever you like).
theme_advanced_buttons2 : "forecolor,backcolor,|,hr,link,unlink,image,table,|,pastetext,pasteword,|,code",Hope that helps. Let me know if you need any assistance with that.
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Re: [Dave] Weird Control Characters (HELP !)
By avrom - March 6, 2008
I think I owe you a beer next time I am in town... at the very least I continue to do business with Interactive Tools because of the awesome support.
Re: [virgodesign] Weird Control Characters (HELP !)
By kcallana - March 13, 2008
Re: [kcallana] Weird Control Characters (HELP !)
By Dave - March 14, 2008
Hope that helps, let me know if you have any other problems.
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