By taffy-1 on

Hi,

I have htmlarea module on my web site. I go to the admin page for site configuration and edit the footer; swap to html edit mode and insert the html code for the copyright symbol. Save it and everything is fine.

However, if I go back to the admin page for site configuration, the footer edit box no longer contains the code for the copyright symbol instead it has been replaced by a "?". Of course if I don't notice this, and fix it, saving this page will replace my copyright notice.

Is this a "filter" issue or a htmlarea issue? Anybody have a solution or can tell me what I'm doing wrong.

Cheers,


Paul


BTW It would be nice if htmlarea had a dropdown which would allow the user to insert the standard html symbol codes

Comments

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lankz commented

I'm not exactly sure why this occurs with the new Drupal. I had the same error when I started using a theme I made for the old version of Drupal in RC2, the footer had a hardcoded copyright notice with a copyright notice in it, I noticed that it was replaced with a '?'. I've checked the database and this has nothing to do with HTMLArea inserting the incorrect data.

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taffy-1 commented

I've also noticed on some, but not all, posts that random "?" are being inserted into the text. NOTE: I'm using htmlarea for the posts, and xtemplae for the theme, Drupal 4.2.0 RC.

Is there any chance that something (browser, Drupal, ?) is chopping up the postings and inserting "?" at the breaks?

I ask this because of an issue I have with a webmail site (mail.com). I create a html email offline and paste it into their html edit window (using IE) and send it off. Some, but not all, Recipients then complained about random "?" characters in the text. Turned out that this had to do with the html that I was creating offline, the editor I was using would use html BR and DIV tags rather than P tags.

When using P tags the resulting email messages that were received would have hard carriage returns. Whereas the BR/DIV emails would be one long line of text. I expect that some mail servers (telstra.com was one offender) didn't like this and broke the line up and inserted the "?" characters.

as always your millage may vary.
Cheers,
Paul