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By r.smith on
I am working on a website that will make use of the International Phonetic Alphabet. I am using TinyMCE and when I input data into the body of a page and save in Filtered HTML, they special IPA sympbols which I code by their entities (ɛ) work beautifully. But I would like to be able to use Full HTML. When I save as full html the entity code is displayed rather than the special character.
I am running Drupal 6.3, MySQL 4.1.22-standard, PHP 4.4.7. I did set up my drupal installation with Fantastico. I read on a forum that that could perhaps be part of my problem, but the issue was unresolved and it was 2 years old.
I thought from Drupal 5 on this was a non-issue...I'm very confused, I hope the solve is an obvious fix that I will feel very dumb about...
Thank you!
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Could you please provide a
Could you please provide a couple of examples of what you are trying to post (the IPA symbols) and the error-some output? Just a few, not screeds and screeds.
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Examples
Yes! I can certainly do that.
For example, I type
"The IPA Symbol is [&# 650;]"(Without the space of course, here it is being converted to it's symbol even though I have it in code tags)In filtered HTML it comes out "The IPA Symbol is [ʊ]" which is perfect! Exactly what I want!
And on Full HTML it comes out: "The IPA Symbol is [&# 650;]" (Again with out the space)
Great stuff, I'm going to
Great stuff, I'm going to play around this next day or two, I need something like this working also so I have a particular interest in this. What I am going to do is try configuring my own input filters - i.e. create new input filter similar to Filtered HTML but allow more tags AND try some of the other input filters you can find in the download modules section.
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Wonderful! Thanks
Thanks for that. I too will try working more on it when I get back from being out of town this weekend.
Fix
One has to hard code this from the HTML screen that pops up when you press the HTML button on the TinyMCE toolbar, not actually in the TinyMCE text area as I was doing. (Silly me.) Then all special characters are displayed as special characters in Full HTML.
[The HTML button can be enabled under the "buttons & Plugins" section for your chosen profile at "admin/settings/tinymce".]
Actually, NOT fixed
On further testing, I found this only worked for a few of the special characters. With the rest, I input them into the HTML code, when I click "Update" and am taken back to the TinyMCE editor, they display correctly, and then when I save the the node they are displayed as question marks. When I edit they are now displayed as questions marks in the TinyMCE editor as well as in the HTML code when I click on this button.
Any ideas, anyone?