What happens if you change the charset to UTF-8? I use asterisks all the time (to represent *thinking* *laughing* etc.) and neither my 1.5.2 blogs nor my 2.0 ones italicize it. I use UTF-8 exclusively.
Also, are you using some form of wysiwyg, Textile or something?
Hi again, vkaryl. 🙂
The reason why I’m using iso-8859-1, instead of the more versatile UTF-8, is that when I imported my Greymatter files in charset UTF-8, I got all sorts of weird characters in my posts. So I had to change it to iso-8859-1, which seemed to solve the problem.
(Not using any WSIWYG or anything else, btw.)
Hello!
Well, that’s logical – probably GM was set in iso-8859-1, and with an importer would have become fairly problematic….
What happens if you insert the asterisks as the actual UTF-8 code for them: & # 4 2 ; (without interstitial spaces – which keeps it from simply displaying the asterisk here)? Or the iso-8859-1 code: & 4 2 ; (without the spaces – and without the # sign) or maybe try even the probably now-deprecated entity name: & ast ; (leave out spaces again)….
Is the Markdown plugin active by any chance?
Hi Moshu, yes the Markdown plugin IS active. If I deactivate it, will it change this? And will it change anything else?
Vkaryl, I will check what you’ve asked….
Alrighty. Deactivated the Markdown plugin and that seems to have solved the problem. Thanks for your help, both of you. 🙂
Glad to hear it! (Markdown was the other wysiwyg thing that goes along with Textile, the name of which I couldn’t remember the other day…. glad moshu came up with it!)
