Pasting webcode from Dreamweaver

[David Clarke]

I have been trying to make up the text for various products in Dreamweaver (I have CC 2014 installed, could use earlier or later). When I do this some characters do not paste correctly. I get L for £ signs and mysterious characters turning up.

If I paste the code to notepad first and then into Sellerdeck I do not have this problem.

Searching the forum and asking support I found information which says I need to change the formatting of characters in Dreamweaver to iso-8859-1 from Dreamweaver's default of 'UTF-8'. In the place where Dreamweaver lists this I do not have the option of ISO 8859. I have other ISO options and they did not work.

I do not have the Dreamweaver sellerdeck extensions installed because Dreamweaver was added after Sellerdeck and I do not want to re-install Sellerdeck 2014 as I have been trying 2016 as well and have install hassles.

I am not designing the basic pages in Dreamweaver, just writing product text which I then paste into the product field between !!< and >!!.

I must be missing something simple. Anyone any suggestions?

[Mike Hughes]

You could try using a clipboard extension like Ditto that can be set to paste as plain text.

[malbro]

I have been trying to make up the text for various products in Dreamweaver (I have CC 2014 installed, could use earlier or later). When I do this some characters do not paste correctly. I get L for £ signs and mysterious characters turning up.

I must be missing something simple. Anyone any suggestions?

Try using &pound; instead, that should display correctly. Pasting it through notepad is changing it to plain text.

[David Clarke]

It is not just pound signs. I get other odd characters all over the place. Pasting through notepad sorts it out. I have been using Frontpage which never causes a problem either but that is very old.

[malbro]

It is not just pound signs. I get other odd characters all over the place. Pasting through notepad sorts it out. I have been using Frontpage which never causes a problem either but that is very old.

Take a look for HTML Entities on google you can find a list of all entries that will display correctly indstead of using keyboard characters, it might cover everything you want.

[Jan]

Have you tried switching to code view before you paste the text?

Regards,

[David Clarke]

I work in split view and take the code from the code view and paste it into fragments or product descriptions between !!< and >!!.

Pasting from design view looses all formatting.

As an example this code:

<P><strong>2TB RAID rated drives</strong><BR>
In our last newsletter we mentioned 8 RAID-rated drives which we were selling at a low price. We have 5 of these drives left. They are Seagate Enterprise class 2TB RAID hard drives, rated for use as RAID drives (which means they are better tested than normal drives and are designed to work 24/7). Normally we would sell these at <strong>£120+VAT</strong> each but we are selling all 5 at <strong>£89+VAT </strong>each.</P>

Becomes this code when pasted into the text box:

<P><strong>2TB RAID rated drives</strong><BR>
In our last newsletter we mentioned 8 RAID-rated drives which we were selling at a low price. We have 5 of these drives left. They are Seagate Enterprise class 2TB RAID hard drives, rated for use as RAID drives (which means they are better tested than normal drives and are designed to work 24/7). Normally we would sell these at <strong>£120+VAT</strong> each but we are selling all 5 at <strong>£89+VAT </strong>each.</P>

You can see the extra Âs. It is not just  s other things appear as well. These are the only examples I can find currently.

[David Clarke]

I finally found the problem. I knew it was a pretty simple thing I was doing wrong. In Dreamweaver go to preferences and New document. Change the default encoding to "Western European". That solved it.

Posting here in case anyone else has the problem and searches the forum.