Hi,
thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.
This is really weird. On all of my test sites, I have not problems with umlauts or other characters from foreign languages.
My assumption here is that there’s something going on with the character encoding settings on your site or server. I’d really like to investigate this further, if possible. Could you therefore maybe contact me via email (the address is in the main plugin file “tablepress.php” of the plugin), so that we can maybe find a way for me to see this directly?
Regards,
Tobias
Thread Starter
didis
(@didis)
Thanks, Tobias for answering so fast and your offer …
I have to add that I imported the content of the table via csv from Excel. These umlauts were not transferred.
When I filled in the “ä” und “ü” later on by myself there were no problems.
But you may be right because using the plugin Word-to-wordpress which allows to paste complete tables from MS-Word by changing the format online the same problem occurred. But the reason for this may be a server-problem from word-to-wordpress…
But I have another question:
How to change the format of the characters (e.g. bold) and the fields (background color? Only via css? Not by a button/wysiwyg? I do not have any idea of css….
Thanks
Dietmar
Hi Dietmar,
thanks for your reply! Ok, that brings some relief at least 🙂 Yes, the import of files with umlauts can sometimes be tricky. The reason is the character encoding. I haven’t yet found a really good automatic solution to this, but usually it works, if you open the CSV file in the Windows editor/Notepad, and click “Save as” and then select “UTF-8” as the character encoding. Could you maybe try that?
Changing the styling (fonts, colors, etc.) is indeed only possible via CSS. The reason basically is that CSS is much more powerful than any button interface that I could ever come up with.
Now, as TablePress is the successor of WP-Table Reloaded, I suggest that you take a peek at the WP-Table Reloaded FAQ page at http://tobias.baethge.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-table-reloaded-english/faq/ where you can find examples for WP-Table Reloaded. Applying those to TablePress usually just means to replace
.wp-table-reloaded-id-N
with
.tablepress-id-N
and
.wp-table-reloaded
with
.tablepress
Regards,
Tobias
Thread Starter
didis
(@didis)
Yep!
The trick going via notepad and changing to UTF-8 works! Great! Thanks!
I know table-reloaded already. I thought tablepress would offer other for me more simple features…
I’ll have a look at your hints concerning table-reloaded
regards
Dietmar
Hi,
great to hear that the method via Notepad worked 🙂
Well, TablePress will offer more and better features, but at first, I have to make sure that the existing features work nicely 🙂 I’ll then think about making styling easier, but I’m not yet sure how that will come out.
Best wishes,
Tobias
