Every had strange characters show up on your web pages? One of the benefits of using Dreamweaver is that you do not need to be concerned about special characters within your web pages. As long as you use the special characters feature within Dreamweaver to insert these characters onto your web pages, they will always appear correctly. It is important not to use the special characters directly from your operating system character map since a browser does not understand these characters.

When inserting special characters into a web page, it is important to use ASCII characters for HTML entities. These should be used when inserting special characters for symbols such as copyright, registered, and trademarks. Each of these HTML entity special characters require an & at the beginning and a semi-colon at the end. You can view a listing of these characters at https://cmairscreate.com/category/resources/html-2/ and choosing the first link for ASCII characters.

To insert the copyright symbole correctly, use the special characters feature within Dreamweaver. If you use Insert->Character and choose Copyright, Dreamweaver will create the correct ASCII characters on your web page. If you are inserting these characters directly from your operating system using a shortcut command, these characters will not display correctly on the web page once the page has been uploaded to a web server.

Be sure to use the Insert command or Insert panel within Dreamweaver to add these special characters to your pages to prevent special character issues on your pages.