Question

I am having a problem with FCKeditor reverting html entities entered in the source view back to their original unicode representations. For example when I enter € into the source view, switch to html and then back to source view, the entity is replaced by an actual € symbol. The bigger problem, as a result, is that this unicode character is then sent back to the server on submit causing character encoding issues with the underlying database table. Anyone else come across this? I have tried many combinations of config settings but all to no avail.

Answer 1

The problem was a configuration setting – FCKConfig.ProcessHTMLEntities=true.

Altough I had tried changing this in fckconfig.js, I did not realise that the value was being over-ridden in a secondary custom configuration file which had been created by a previous developer.

Thanks Anne.