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"Written accent " problems in Expression Web 3
"Written accent " problems in Expression Web 3
- Hi, Im having a lot of problems with written accents in expression web 3. Im spanish and I need this to work. I didnt have any of this problems with expression web 2. I always code my HTMLs in UTF-8. When I wan to put a word like qué EW3 puts a strange symbol. What could I do?
Example with Expression Web 2:
Example with Expression Web 3:
- Edited byTomas Crespo Tuesday, October 20, 2009 10:24 AM
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- What happens if you enter it using Alt+0233 é
Expression Web MVP - This is a known bug in xWeb 3. A viable workaround might be to run %windir%\system32\charmap.exe and copy the desired characters to xWeb.
This is a known bug in xWeb 3. A viable workaround might be to run %windir%\system32\charmap.exe and copy the desired characters to xWeb.
This is a "botched job". Impresionant solution. Microsoft dont think solve this?
What happens if you enter it using Alt+0233 é
Expression Web MVP
This works, if I press ALT+0233 in numPad EW writes é, but I think that Expression Web itsnt usable for Spanish users for now.
This is a known bug in xWeb 3. A viable workaround might be to run %windir%\system32\charmap.exe and copy the desired characters to xWeb.
Im not referring to this bug. This is other bug that happens in UTF-8 and any other coding.- You are right, I picked the wrong one. This is the bug I was referring to. They "will be looking at this for Expression Web 4". Believe me, I am not happy with this delay either.
- Hi, it's incredible that Microfot released E3 only for English content.... even if the product is translated to Spanish and all other languages. The only workaround I've found is using traditional HTML tagging for accents and other signs: ó é and so on.
Copy and paste áéíóú also works- Proposed As Answer bydpiret Thursday, October 22, 2009 1:34 PM
- Disgraceful , expression web 3 goes back.
- Fine. Seeya. Maybe come back after you've spent four or five times as much for Dreamweaver and tell us how disappointed you are to learn that it has warts, too. Ta ta...scott
Plural's don't have apostrophe's. It seem's sometime's that any word's ending in "s" get a gratuitous apostrophe. Apostrophe's are used to indicate possessive's and elision's (contraction's or abbreviation's). - Thanks for pointing this critical bug. I use foreign characters daily in my English language sites and was planning to upgrade from EW2 to EW3 after SP1 fixes the select text bug and allows users to change the unreadable black background interface. The inability to enter foreign characters routinely with Windows' United States-International keyboard renders EW3 useless to me. So I will have to wait at least another year or two to be able to select text to the left border without selecting the whole page or to change a DWT on multiple pages at once.
I was with this same problem and managed to solve it of the following way:
1) Search the file "user.config" in your computer. Probably you will find 4.
2) One of these files (and it is what interests) is in some user's folder. In my computer it is in C/Documents and Settings/my name/AppData/Microsoft/Expression/Web3/user.config.
3) Open this file with Notepad.
4) Search for the lines
<PrimitiveObject Name="Visibility" Type="System.Windows.Visibility">Visible</PrimitiveObject>
<PrimitiveObject Name="Visibility" Type="System.Windows.Visibility">Collapsed</PrimitiveObject>
There are 11 of these lines.Except for the first of these lines [ that in the tag <ConfigurationObject> where appears Type="System.Int32">0< ], all the other should have the characteristic Collapsed, and not Visible.
If in some of them appear the Visible characteristic, replace for Collapsed and save the file.
This solved my problem and hope that it solves yours.
PS.: If the problem reappear, repeat the procedure. Or then copies the file corrected for another folder and substitute it when necessary.
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Alberto Mesquita Filho- Someone has tried this solution?
I cant because I have uninstalled Expression Web 3 - Well, given his post, it's almost a certainty that Alberto has tried it. What do you want, sworn testimony from multiple testers? Those of us with no need for foreign language diacriticals don't have the problem, so since you do, if I may suggest, you might want to give Alberto's method a shot. Seems to have worked for him...
cheers,
scott
Plural's don't have apostrophe's. It seem's sometime's that any word's ending in "s" get a gratuitous apostrophe. Apostrophe's are used to indicate possessive's and elision's (contraction's or abbreviation's). Someone has tried this solution?
I have to agree, I have tried using fr and es and in both I get some bizarre characters. What I have been doing is writing the document in word, spell check it, and send it notepad to get rid of any formatting. Then I paste it into the design view of EW. This is the only way I have ever seen to get a satisfactory result.
I cant because I have uninstalled Expression Web 3
It would be nice if EW3 could leverage Word's spelling tools better.
Vote if answered or helpful, I am running for Office (joke)! IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/MainframeServer: P4-2GHz, 1.5 GB RAM, Linux Server, need IDE/SATA disks for my chess site
Workstation: Asus M2NBP-VM CSM, Athlon64 X2 4200+ 65W CPU, 2GB RAM, NVIDIA 8600GT, 320GB + 160G backup, Windows 7 Ultimate x64.- "It would be nice if EW3 could leverage Word's spelling tools better."
Kinda unlikely, considering that MS is doing everything it can to eliminate all vestige of connection to Office from EW. AFAIK, the Word spell checker is not used in EW3, and probably will never be again.
BTW, I haven't tested for accented character preservation, but I believe you can save yourself an intermediary step if you paste directly from Word into EW, only instead of using Paste or Ctrl-V, select "Edit|Paste Text" and select "normal paragraphs with line breaks." That strips all the Word gunk formatting and will probably preserve the accented characters for you. Give it a try and let us know how it goes.
cheers,
scott
Plural's don't have apostrophe's. It seem's sometime's that any word's ending in "s" get a gratuitous apostrophe. Apostrophe's are used to indicate possessive's and elision's (contraction's or abbreviation's).
