[Solved] Need help to enable curly quotes, etc.

Hello,

I’m pretty new to MODx and and trying to implement curly quotes and the like on my pages, but it just keeps spitting out junk code. Is there a way to correct this?

Here are some examples:
I type this: And get this:
’ ’
“ “
” â€￾

Anyway, I searched the forums and didn’t find an answer to this. I am not using a WYSIWYG editor like TinyMCE, just the plain html editor.

Thank you!

Okay, I fixed it. I went into the /manager/includes/config.inc.php and commented out lines 9 and 10!

// $database_connection_charset = ’utf8’;
// $database_connection_method = ’SET CHARACTER SET’;

If other people have the same problem, hopefully this will work for you too. I hope that this doesn’t cause other problems, but it fixed the problem I had.

Connection charsets and methods go beyond my knowledge of using databases, but it doesn’t sound like a good idea to comment out lines in the config file...


I’d rather use the html equivalents. (references can be found with google. Like here: http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/quotes-in-html.html)

I’m not sure it will solve your problem, but you might consider converting your MODx database to all UTF-8, if it’s not that already.

There’s a tool here to do the conversion: http://bobsguides.com/convert-db-utf8.html