Many times when I use a double space, Movable Type interprets it as an Â. how do I fix this?
Double space creates Â
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Dave Aiello
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Maarten Schenk
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Dave Aiello on April 1, 2014, 1:23 p.m. Reply
This may be occurring because the database tables underlying Movable Type are encoded using a different character set than Movable Type is configured to use.
I would check the database table definitions to see if they are encoded for UTF-8. If not, I would add a PublishCharset configuration directive to your mt-config.cgi file. See http://movabletype.org/documentation/appendices/config-directives/publishcharset.html for more information.
Maarten Schenk on April 2, 2014, 4:41 a.m. Reply
Besides the database and the PublishCharset configuration of Movable Type, it could also be that your webserver is configured to use a different encoding. Ideally, all three (database, MT and webserver) should have matching character sets configured.
More on this topic: http://www.movabletips.com/2010/03/iso-8859-1-utf8-character-sets-encoding-movable-type-and-you.html