Cross Platform Copyright Symbol?

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We’ve used the copyright symbol on all of our sites, but on this last one it’s not showing up correctly.

Is that a server problem, or do I need to create it a special way other then option + g?

Thanks.

Bob

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The only reason why the option G wouldn’t work is if your page is not setting the correct content-type/character set META tag, or your server isn’t sending the correct content-type header. If your page is set to Automatic encoding, switch it to UTF-8 or Latin-1 or another encoding and see if that makes a difference.

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OK. I may try that.

What we did discover is that “©” created a copyright symbol that worked.

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For those on the Web view, that’s ©.

The thing is, Freeway is supposed to create that symbol for you IF the
current encoding does not include the option-g character. Unicode does
include that character, and as long as your page is coded in Unicode
(and you’re using a font that includes that character – not a very
large stretch for this particular glyph) then you will see it. If you
switch to a different encoding, like maybe Windows-Latin or similar,
then you would get the HTML entity © or © instead.

Walter

On Feb 11, 2009, at 8:43 PM, Robert Bovasso wrote:

What we did discover is that “©” created a copyright symbol
that worked.

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Is it a good idea to just keep all sites with UTF-8 encoding?

I’ve never changed the Freeway default, so it never occurred to me to change it.

Also, how did you get the copyright code to come out correctly in the post and not show the symbol like mine did?

Thanks.

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The W3C states in their specifications that the Web should be in UTF-8
unless there’s an overriding reason to use a different character set.
Freeway’s “Automatic” setting is supposed to default to a UTF-8
character set at all times, but there are some versions where there’s
a bug and you get something else, or if I recall correctly, a mix of
encodings between the DOCTYPE and the meta: content-type tags and the
actual character encoding of the file. If you’re having difficulty
with “high-bit” characters like ©, a simple fix is usually to choose
an encoding for your page (or Master Page) manually. This wakes up
Freeway and sorts things out. The very latest version of Freeway has
this problem sorted, I believe.

Anything that you want to mark out as a snippet of code, surround it
with the “back-tick” symbol ( ) found on the US keyboard sharing a keycap with the tilde (~). The back-tick will need to "touch" your code-text on either side, but you may have more than one word inside these delimiters. For example, this won’t be marked as code while this will be marked as code`.

Note that this is just for short runs of text. If you want to mark off
a larger block of code, say something with more than one line of code,
and where indenting and other text formatting is important to you,
then put a short row of tildes (at least 3, I usually use 4) alone on
a single line before and after it. These characters won’t appear on
the Web, they will start and stop a pre code block.

//this is a lump of code
for(var i = 0; i < 200; i++){
	console.log('Hello, world ' + i + ' times!');
}

The Web presentation of this mailing list is using Michel Fortin’s
excellent extension of John Gruber’s Markdown format – the PHP
Markdown Extra encoder.

Walter

On Feb 12, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Robert Bovasso wrote:

Is it a good idea to just keep all sites with UTF-8 encoding?

I’ve never changed the Freeway default, so it never occurred to me
to change it.

Also, how did you get the copyright code to come out correctly in
the post and not show the symbol like mine did?

Thanks.

Bob

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Thanks for all the info, Walt.

I’m using FW Pro 5.3.1, so i think I’m up to date.

Since this is the first time this has happened (the copyright symbol problem) it might also be a problem with the server the site is on, though they really had no answers for us.

Thanks again. I’ll keep all this in mind for the future.

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Sometime around 12/2/09 (at 10:13 -0500) Walter Lee Davis said:

Anything that you want to mark out as a snippet of code, surround it
with the “back-tick” symbol (`)

Just in case anyone gets confused, this is just for showing code in
this forum. It is not anything to do with inputting code in Freeway!

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