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A number of editors have reported "weird characters" publishing inside their text.



The CMS text editors (RedDot, FCK, and Telerik) have character sets determined by the OpenText server charset. In most cases, WYSIWYG editors like Dreamweaver automatically declare the pages charset when the design is developed. The current, most common charset is UTF-8.

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

The server's charset is not UTF-8 and therefore characters like blank spaces and quote hashes come up as these weird characters.

To Solve:

1. change your meta tag in the HTML header to

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>

OR

2. In SmartTree -> Choose language variant -> "Publish charset" = UTF-8.
Header should be:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

More available on this topic and other Telerik quirks at the unofficial CMS blog:
http://www.reddotcmsblog.com/telerik-radeditor-quirks