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How to stop WP from replacing special characters with a '?' ? (10 posts)

  1. enigma2k
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Hi!
    I need to put into wordpress 2 special characters as a html code. so I put the uni-code &#711 and &#462 directly in the build in html editor and save it.
    everything is displayed correctly the first time but if I want to edit the text a second time WP replaces these codes with a question mark and I have to put in the code again.Is there a way that the code stays in the html editor without being replaced by a '?'.

  2. enigma2k
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    is there no solution in wordpress to this problem? I need it very badly!

  3. Shane G
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Hi,

    You can check with this plugin which may helpful to you:

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wow-character-display/

    Thanks,

    Shane G.

  4. enigma2k
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    a World of Warcraft plugin? could not find anything useful in it.

    there must be a plugin that wordpress does not replace html code like: &#711 with a '?'...

  5. Wee Beastie
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    What are the special characters you are trying to get? Just describe them. I may be able to give you the right code.

  6. Wee Beastie
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    ǎ and ˇ ?

  7. enigma2k
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    yes exactly!

  8. Wee Beastie
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Okay all you need to do is add a semi-colon to each one. Easy fix!

    &#711[;]

    Leave the out brackets []

    Good luck!

  9. enigma2k
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I have already the semi-colon.
    It is showing correctly in WordPress. The problem is however that if I go into the Visual editor and update it the whole code is gone and replaced by a question mark.

  10. Wee Beastie
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Okay, I see. I'm afraid I can't help with this one. I see your problem, but I don't know how to fix it. You might have some luck with this http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ps-disable-auto-formatting/
    but I'm not sure. I strips WordPress' default formatting. It might stop WP from stripping out your code. If it doesn't work, hopefully someone else can help. Sorry!

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