Hi!

Pls, any software is there to convert accented letters into special HTML symbols?

For example:

À - À
Ê - Ê

I have Dreamweaver 9 (CS3) but do not know how to convert.

Thank you!

Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Character Map

For Windows XP anyway.

Dreamweaver

Insert -> Special Character -> Other ...

You can try this resource: http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/reference/entity/
or this one: http://www.asciitable.com/

No, I need to auto-convert a lot of french text. Manually I can. But I need it to be auto-converted when I paste the text from the Word into Dreamweaver - is it possible?

Using Search&Replace should be an easy method

The code start with " & "
after that you input the letter that is going to get the accent, upper or lower case

then is the code for the accent
´ = acute
` = grave
^ = circ
~ = tilde
¨ = ulm (im not sure about the one)

at the end is the semi-colon " ; "

so all a with accent
á á
Á Á
à à
À À
ã ã
à Ã
â â
 Â
&aulm; ä
&Aulm; Ä


PS: the " ç " is " ç "

InfinitySchima : thank you, but this is not the way I need.

I need it to be auto-converted.

Dreamweaver should do it for you.

I have it. Pls explain me exactly HOW TO DO IT. I am web-designer with more than 10 years experience but I do not know how to do it.

My Dreamweaver - CS3

Usually, If you type a comon symol or paste it in in design mode, it should do it. Or you go to Insert >> HTML >> Special Characters.
Hope that helps

I copy the text in WinWord and then paste it in Dreamweaver, in the design mode. But it does not convert the letters! Do you know exactly what should be done?

DW isn't going to be able to do this automatically for you, you'll have to do a site-wide search and replace from within DW.

LadynRed, There is a lot of text and it would take a lot of time to manually replace the accented letters.

Hm, I think there should be a software which can automatically recognize such a letters ( Ä ä É é Ö ö and so on ) and replace them with appropriate symbols ( Ä ä É é Ö ö and so on ).

I don't have DW as I code everything by hand, but in my coding environment I can record macros. You could, if DW supports it, record a macro and only have to do this once.

JeremyMiller

I myself code by hand for many years and normally I do not use Dreamweaver. But I have it on my computer.

I googled this question and came out on this thread, which wasn't anwsered:

Download HTMLtidy @ http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ (choose ASCII-set and save optimize)

or if you use firefox:

Download HTML validator @ http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/ (Goto "View Source > HTML Validator > Clean page" this will use the engine from HTMLtidy)

I couldn't find this extention for dreamweaver yet.

This always works for me...
http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm

Thanks for posting the question. I found the answer in a similar post in this forum: http://www.webmaster-talk.com/html-f...ters-into.html

check the last answer. it has to do with the <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
line, u need to make sure the charset is ISO-8859-1 and not utf-8.

As long as you put that in your meta data in your files, then DW will know to convert automatically. Simply type the words in the design view, and you will see them change in code view.

Thanks,
CC