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Characters options in Web Settings
Characters options
The Characters tab of Web Settings includes all the special characters specified by ISO 8859-1 and the HTML 3.2
standard. HTML uses a specific notation for encoding special characters to ensure a uniform display across multiple
computer platforms. GoLive uses the content of the Characters tab to map special characters added to your HTML
documents to their web-specific character entity references.
To view special characters in the Characters tab
You can view the characters sorted by category (Structured), or you can view them alphabetically (Flat). If a character
can’t be displayed in the system font, a small box (Windows) or an
x (Mac OS) appears in the Char column of the
Characters tab of Web Settings instead of the character.
1
Open the Characters tab of Web Settings, and in the View palette select one of the following options:
• To view the characters alphabetically, select Flat.
•
To view the characters grouped by category, select Structured.
2 Scroll through the list of characters (if the view is set to Structured, then expand a category), and select a character
under the Name column. The Web Settings Entity Inspector displays the following information for the character:
•
The left Name box displays the character’s HTML name, and the right box shows the HTML code that is inserted
by default into the source code.
•
Comment describes the character.
• The left Unicode box (Windows and Mac OS) displays the character code, the middle (Windows) or right
(Mac OS) box displays the byte code, and the right box (Windows only) displays the character’s visual represen­
tation. You can select and copy the character in the right Unicode box, and paste it into the Layout Editor of a
document.
• Select Write to write the related text box into the document rather than the left Name box. Enter the character
entity reference without the starting ampersand and closing semicolon. GoLive will insert the new character entity
instead of the default entity. This option might be used when you want GoLive to insert a character’s numeric
HTML entity rather than the named HTML entity.
To show or hide columns in the Characters tab
❖ From the context menu of any of the column heads, Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS), and choose
a column name or an option. You can show or hide all of the columns, or show a selection of columns.
To add a special character to a document
1 In the Characters tab of Web Settings , select the character.
2
In the Web Settings Entity Inspector, select the character in the third Unicode Code box (Windows) or the third
Mac box (Mac OS), and choose Copy from the context menu.