Windows Live Writer Bug
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Us Brits are suffering from a bug in Windows Live Writer (WLW) when entering currency amounts. WLW fails to handle the pound sign (£) correctly when entered in one of the WYSIWYG modes. Here’s what happens when you enter it and publish the post:
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Mmmm! That doesn’t quite look correct does it? But fear not, it is fairly easy to work around this issue until the bug is fixed:
- Switch to HTML edit mode
- Everywhere you see a “£” sign replace it with the HTML code for the pound sign, which is “£”
This bug has been reported on the WLW discussion forum. Hopefully this minor issue will be fixed for the next release.
For those bloggers that have still to try it out, Windows Live Writer rocks!
UPDATE:
The Windows Live Writer team have got back with a workaround, details of which are below and taken from HERE.
Non-ASCII characters render incorrectly on UTF-8 encoded blogs
Description: On WordPress 2.1+ and PHP versions older than 5.0.2, publishing posts using Writer results in non-ASCII characters showing up as either squares or question marks.
Reason and Solution: Writer erroneously prepends the UTF-8 Byte Order Mark to XML-RPC requests that are UTF-8 encoded. This prevents WordPress from correctly detecting the UTF-8 encoding declaration, so ISO-8859-1 is assumed instead.
Run regedit.exe and find the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Windows Live Writer\Weblogs\<your-blog-id>
Verify that the subkey ManifestOptions contains a characterSet=”UTF-8″ value. If so, under the subkey UserOptionOverrides, add a new String Value named characterSet and leave its value empty.
Remember to do this tweak for all your affected blogs and as always use extreme caution when making changes to your computer’s registry. The cautious amongst you may even wish to backup your registry before making a change.
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July 7th, 2007 at 12:04 am
Take care, you also need to go through any post you edit as WLW will restore any “£” code to the £ symbol making it render incorrectly - grrrr!
Pain in the neck, but you’ll have to go in and edit the £ symbols even when editing a post you’ve already corrected.
Please, please fix this soon.
July 12th, 2007 at 1:59 am
The Windows Live Writer team have got back to us with a workaround!
See http://codex.wordpress.org/Windows_Live_Writer_Help#Non-ASCII_characters_render_incorrectly_on_UTF-8_encoded_blogs for more details of what to do.