XF 1.2 • character from vB displayed literally

[Stuart Wright]

So in our vB forums the • character, copied from Word and pasted in to a thread, is displayed as a bullet point dot.
In XF, it's displayed as •

I'm assuming that all odd characters like this will be displayed in the same way.
Is there anything I can do about this to fix it?
Thanks.

 

[Paul B]

Sounds like you may need an add-on to convert the HTML symbol entities.

Why are they being used in posts anyway?

 

[Stuart Wright]

Members creating posts presumably composed in Word and pasted in.
http://www.avforums.com/forums/av-a...06-attempt-explain-high-definition-audio.html
Thanks

 

[Paul B]

When I paste from Word here I get this:

· This is a bullet point pasted from Word

So it sort of works, it's better than the HTML entity code but not as defined as a bullet which looks like this:

• This is a manually inserted bullet

 

[Mike]

I should note that this is handled in the standard importer.

You'll probably need to write some queries to replace these entities with standard UTF-8 characters after the fact. (Individual characters can be replaced directly in MySQL but doing it generally would likely require custom PHP to do the conversions.)

 

[Paul B]

Post import, will it be possible to override the formatting stripping you've implemented @Mike?
So that formatting from Word is preserved.

I think that's what Stuart's main query is.

 

[Stuart Wright]

I'll direct Jake to this thread. I'm guessing that any processing at the time of the import will slow it down, so it's a task better done post import.
Thank you.

 

[Paul B]

Be aware that after you convert, you will no longer be able to compose in Word and then post in the editor as a lot of the formatting is stripped (deliberately).

 

[Stuart Wright]

Thanks. People will adapt.