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PHP: Problem With Displaying French Accented Characters; black diamond…

If you have this problem and your accented characters are being replaced by black diamonds with question marks in them and you tried EVERYTHING you could find and nothing worked and no one seems to know what’s going on and you think it’s PHP or Apache that is causing this issue and you tried changing their configuration directives and you are pulling your hair out then this could be your editor!

Go to it’s preferences, most of them have a section for font encoding, for example in Komodo Edit, go to:

Preferences > Fonts and Colors > Under the Fonts tab > There is the font encoding, choose UTF-8

After this step you might have to change the encoding of the current file, again most editors should be able to do this, refer to your editor’s docs for more info on this, but here is how to do this in Komodo Edit:

Open File > Edit > Current File Settings > In File Settings Box > Change Encoding To UTF-8 > Save

and Viola!

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The Best Overall Code Editor Ever: Komodo Edit

A while back I wrote a post about what I think is the best Python code editor but I decided to write an update and write a little more about Komodo Edit…

I use Dreamweaver to write HTML/CSS/JavaScript/PHP code and a few days ago I decided to open Komodo Edit and see how it does with PHP.

I did try other editors for PHP but their support for HTML and CSS was lame and I’m so used to Dreamweaver’s comprehensive code completion features.

Well, I was surprised that Komodo Edit has all those features (& more) and handles PHP/CSS/HTML/JavaScript beatuifully, open a new PHP file and after ?> type:

And then hit space, it will suggest everything Dreamweaver suggests and more! then write:

style=”

And again it will suggest every CSS property, then type:

It will suggest all the possible values, more than Dreamweaver…

The other thing is that it will show you function descriptions for all the functions and that could be very handy.

I have to say that I don’t know if I’m going to pay for Dreamweaver ever again and if you are looking for a free and excelent code editor, try Komodo Edit.

I have no affiliation with ActiveState and what I said above is my personal thoughts and ideas and an attempt to show this excellent/free/open-source product to others.

Happy Coding.

Comments (1) Filed under: CSS, HTML/XHTML, JavaScript, Komodo Edit, PHP, Web Design, Web Development Posted by: Codehead