Hi guys,
Since updating to Newspaper v9.0.1, we’re having problems with unwanted characters appearing in text on pages created with tagDiv composer.
For some reason, we are getting Ā and/or  characters appearing in “column text” or “text with title” elements, particularly near a £ symbol (which we use quite often). Please see this link for examples:
http://compareallvans.co.uk/brands/toyota/
We have tried deactivating all plugins, updating Newspaper to latest version, reinstalling Newspaper, clearing all caches, etc. but nothing seems to work.
If I go into tagDiv composer and delete the offending characters, it will fix that element, but add the same characters to every other text element. And each time I do it, it seems to add double! So now I have some lines that have an enormous number of ÂÂÂĀĀĀÂÂÂĀĀĀÂÂÂĀĀĀ in them.
Can you please offer any suggestions?
Many thanks,
stuart
Update on this: We seem to have found some success using a very old plugin from the WordPress repository:
http://kaloyan.info/blog/proekti/wordpress-proekti/wp-utf8-sanitize-plugin/
So far, so good. But I’m not sure if it’s the best long-term solution.
For us, I found first writing the text in MS Word then ‘saving as’ out to a UTF-8 text file, then pasting THAT text into WP works best. Or, you can add a filter to the functions (or roll your own plugin; or use old plugin) to basically turn off some of the conversion funk in WP boxes.
Thanks Chris. And thanks for all the advice and tips you’ve provided here over the years, I’m always finding new tidbits of knowledge from your contributions.
Or maybe they could just fix this in the theme hopefully!
