Strange characters in html and rss

  • Since upgrading to 2.0, I’ve noticed that the raw HTML for my entries (and the RSS feed of them) have these characters that look like A with a circumflex over them (?). I don’t see them when I look at the blog in a browser, but if I do a “wget” of the index page, they’re there. They appear to be at the end of every sentence. I wouldn’t complain, because like I said I don’t see it in a browser (except in lynx, where they appear as 01 (backslash zero zero one)), but it’s screwing up some RSS feed sites.

    Is there something I can do about this? Is this a result of this new javascript “rich text” editor?

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  • Thread Starter ptomblin

    (@ptomblin)

    I turned off the “rich text editor” and made a test post, and it didn’t have these characters.

    We had the same problem. We discovered that putting 2 spaces next to each other (as is common practice in writing) causes this bug to show.

    Anybody know how to fix this?

    In the meantime I’m going to run an update on all our posts replacing ‘ ‘ with ‘ ‘

    I am having this problem as well. The bigger problem I am having though is that the WordPress editor is constantly adding spaces to my posts and so it’s very difficult to eliminate the double spaces… If anyone has a fix for this please let me know! Thanks!

    JEff.

    Ok… I figured out how to solve this problem… I installed the Mudbomb plugin that takes over for the terrible TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor and now I am not getting this annoying character encoding problems.

    If anyone else is having this problem try it out for yourself: mudbomb.com

    Cheers.

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