output of character in tinymce text-editor should comes in utf-8

Hi,

I have used tinymce text-editor in the textarea of the dct.
I want to customize it to have an utf-8 encoding and that the special characters (&, <, >, “, ‘and any foreign language alphabets) are encoded so that it does not break the structure of the xml files. Not every xml tag is going to be wrapped in CDATA. So, it is essential that we customize this tool so that when we enter any text with a special character, the output is encoded properly.

How can i achieve this?

Thanks in advance.

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Faizi

Hi,

I have used tinymce text-editor in the textarea of the dct.
I want to customize it to have an utf-8 encoding and that the special characters (&, <, >, “, ‘and any foreign language alphabets) are encoded so that it does not break the structure of the xml files. Not every xml tag is going to be wrapped in CDATA. So, it is essential that we customize this tool so that when we enter any text with a special character, the output is encoded properly.

How can i achieve this?

Thanks in advance.

Have you gone through Timymce docs?
Check the Timymce docs at \\iw-home\httpd\iw\tinymce\docs,
if you open the docs there is given topic for encoding. It will sort out your problem.

KelvinYong

I am facing similar issue here with (c), (r), (tm), or ndash, euro etc... and I want them to be encoded in numeric. We also have some pages in foreign languages.

And with DCR storing in XML UTF-8, the TinyMCE doesn't convert them into rightfuly named entities on first saving, and only when I re-open the DCR in DCT, and save again, it will be in named entities. However if I append/edit the TinyMCE text area, all of it will be lost and saved as special character. And another open and save without manipulation to the content should retify the special characters issue. How frustrating!

How to make TinyMCE to save the XML/DCR with appropriate encoding??!! I got it sorted with VisualFormat however itself have issue with duplicate content when there's 2 or more VF textarea!!!

Faizi

I am facing similar issue here with (c), (r), (tm), or ndash, euro etc... and I want them to be encoded in numeric. We also have some pages in foreign languages.

And with DCR storing in XML UTF-8, the TinyMCE doesn't convert them into rightfuly named entities on first saving, and only when I re-open the DCR in DCT, and save again, it will be in named entities. However if I append/edit the TinyMCE text area, all of it will be lost and saved as special character. And another open and save without manipulation to the content should retify the special characters issue. How frustrating!

How to make TinyMCE to save the XML/DCR with appropriate encoding??!! I got it sorted with VisualFormat however itself have issue with duplicate content when there's 2 or more VF textarea!!!

If you search on forum with TinyMCE you can find many thread related to this.
Hope these thread will give you some pointer one & two.

KelvinYong

Hello Faizi,

The links you provided aren't giving me the solution I'm looking for. In fact, I already knew how and where to make TinyMCE customisation.

However, what I am seeking is, how to get TinyMCE to produce the output back to textarea that can handle special characters?

Our DCT is in UTF-8, produces XML DCR in UTF-8, then this will generate an output that will be used in ASP.NET (UTF-8) with the iw_pt encoding at UTF-8.

So in actual fact, ideally it should be stored raw (if my understanding of UTF-8 is capable of storing in native special characters even in XML).

If so, I have set TinyMCE (init) to store encoding as "raw" and cleanup to "false".

I then have moment that the DCR saved with editor_id="mce_editor_0" then if I reload the DCR into DCT and save, that is gone. It is very unpredictable and is driving me crazy!!

CRB

my experience with tinymce is that it is not predictable especially once you start customizing it. i d suggest you write some formAPI (js) to handle this urself... that is what i ended up doing.