Story Site Issues, Etc.

[MrDang]

Hi, I've found a way to make special characters display correctly.

For Firefox (Assuming you're using the latest version):
1. Click the 'Firefox' menu button on the top left corner.
2. Select 'Web Developer'
3. Select 'Character Encoding'
4. Select 'Western (ISO-9959-1)'
The page should reload and the correct characters display.

For Chrome:
1. Click the little wrench icon on the top right corner (not the close button, but just below it)
2. Select 'Tools'
3. Select 'Encoding'
4. Select 'Western (ISO-9959-1)'
The page should reload and the correct characters display.

For IE (Assuming you're using the latest version, you're not still using IE6... right?)
1. Click 'Page'
2. Select 'Encoding'
3. Select 'Western European (Windows)'
The page should reload and the correct characters display.

The annoying thing is that you have to do this every time, unless you use an extension or addon to override the site's default encoding, which for some reason is set to Unicode. It doesn't matter what format you submit your stories in, because it'll always break those 'special characters' once your browser uses Unicode encoding, whether it is RTF, HTML, PDF or whatever.

I don't know if the site administrators can fix this but at least I hope this helps some people.

EDIT: I noticed somebody already mentioned the same thing about two months ago. Anyway I still hope it helps.