Hi Nick, I’ll assume your using TinyMCE which is the default editor when you installed RC3.
You can disable the RTE (rich text editor) from the profile section for you account.
Give that a try…Hope it helps!
It is not TinyMCE, I was using the standard editor (the only editor available) with Safari on a Mac.
Also my original post here should of read:
If in a post I write — the first time the post is saved it is converted to — the next time it is saved it is converted to an em-dash — (unicode value —)
I wrote — and thas was converted to — I assume because the support forum is using the same engine as WordPress 2.0 RC3
Quick test
If in a post I write — the first time the post is saved it is converted to — the next time it is saved it is converted to an em-dash — (unicode value —)
Looks like I have a partial solution by using the backticks
If in a post I write — the first time the post is saved it is converted to — the next time it is saved it is converted to an em-dash &#8212 (unicode value —)
Little unsure about using the < code > tag seeing that got converted into two backticks
Time to go test it on my blog
Failure, the backtick solution works here but not with WP 2.0 RC3
Finally worked it out well at least for the WP 2.0 release.
You need to turn off the rich text editor and the automatically correcting HTML option in the profile section and make sure you select apply.
In Safari 1.3 you get no visual clues as to whether the rich text editor is on or off. So check in another browser. But turning off those two options resolves my problem.
