Character encoding in section names, alt tags

[Kermy]

The site I am working on has keywords which require lots of characters eg +/- in them, but Actinic is determined to encode these inside the section names, product names and alt tags. So instead of having a high density for 'DVD-R', there is a high density for 'DVD& #45;R'. Is there a way to prevent this behaviour ? I would assume search engines are intelligent enough to interpret this correctly but can't find any clarification on this.

[Bruce]

Kermy,

The search engine spiders do read HTML and will easily convert the character encoding to read the actual name. Youc an find confirmation on this here....
http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=17073

Kind regards,