Special characters in HTML broken

I wonder, if their is a connection to an other problem I now see.

I changed existing description (to correct the above) and now get a message “Unbalanced tags in description” when I put in
</br>
or
</br></br>

These have been in the description and worked well previously. Also the problem does not show up in all descriptions ? Sorry but this is odd….

Are we talking about the album or the photo?

Do you use the wp editor? (See Table IX-A11)

The tag balance has nothing to do with the special char issue.
Use <br /> for a linebreak (do not forget the space!)

You can switch checking for tag balance off in Table IX-A2.

Thanks,
I realize that the balancing is a different story but I only now was hit by thi.

Opes,… I normally use
…..</br>…the latter got in but worked…

I’ll have a check with the settings you suggest.

Just for info: The special characters in my WP database got messed up after a server move and table unload/reload. Even the standard WP XML Export transform the specials into nasty strings.

Thanks, that helped … did not know about these edit options.

Back to the original problem: Use of the & # 228 ; (without the blanks (even in code it display correctly here) in an Album description still gives the ?

For now I’ll use ?…. that works but to prevent future problems with e.g. DB unload/load, I wanted to use the symbolics…

Note: In my first post the string “& # 228 ;” was meant… but translated correctly.

Als “< br / >” was converted …sorry for that…

I did some tests. &# is already fatal, althoug i even convert & and # during the ajax action that transfers the data into a simple text token, so it must be somewhere else.

There is nothing against using ? as long as you make sure the character set of the target db is utf-8.

Hi Jaap. The tabel-field is utf8… The point is that I wanted to use & # … symbolics. This is about the Album-description.
If i include this list:
‘ = & # 39 ;
& = & # 38 ;
: = & # 58 ;
” = & # 34 ; All these listed above work. However values higher than these do not and give the ? in s wiebertje…..
The following do not display correctly:
? = & # 235 ;
? = & # 246 ;
ü = & # 252 ;
? = & # 239 ;
? = & # 228 ;

Note that i added blanks to have them show-up here….