When I make an entry in expression engine, I sometimes have to use extended characters like é, ü etc. That’s because I write in Dutch…:) When I edit such an entry by using a stand-alone form I made with the great help of form helper, the changed text removes my extended characters and replaced them with garbage, like reünie in stead of reünie and foto’s where there used to be foto’s.

Is there a way to prevent this change?

Marcel

When I make an entry in expression engine, I sometimes have to use extended characters like é, ü etc. That’s because I write in Dutch…:)

Yes, of course. I am Austrian myself, so the concept of umlauts and such is not entirely alien to me

When I edit such an entry by using a stand-alone form I made with the great help of form helper, the changed text removes my extended characters and replaced them with garbage, like reünie in stead of reünie and foto’s where there used to be foto’s.

This looks like utf-8 encoded characters being rendered as Latin-1 (iso-8859-1). Which charset are you using on your site? Do you have alink to where it’s happening?

The charset I’m using is utf-8. (<meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=utf-8” />)
And in ee it’s not a problem. Only when I edit into the site using formhelper. The url is http://www.marcelhoogland.nl/

Thank you, I’ll look into the issue some more. Certainly utf-8 is the way to go.

I can confim this behavior, I suspect a bug in the form helper plugin. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Hi Ingmar,

Glad i could help. Do you know a tiimescale when this bug is repaired.