I am setting up a German website using CouchCMS for the first time. I created an editable field of the type 'text' and the text in that field contains a German Umlaut (Ä) that, if typed into the respective input field in CouchCMS, does not get converted to correct HTML, i.e. Ä. How do I get CouchCMS to recognize and convert such special characters correctly?

Thanks,
Tina

[KK]

Hi @tina

Putting aside for a moment how Couch converts (or not converts) your text, could you please let us know how that text appears on the site's front-end?

I mean, does the Umlaut (Ä) show up as an Umlaut or does it get substituted by something else?

If you can read the Umlaut (Ä) properly (as I expect is the case) then no need to worry about Ä not getting converted to Ä - the reason is that by default Couch uses UTF-8 encoding and this makes it unnecessary for it to change non-ascii chars to their &xyz; codes (only certain special chars like quote, double-quote or ampersand are subjected to this change but that is as a security measure).

Hi KK,

thanks for the fast answer. The Umlaut (Ä) shows up correctly, no substitution. So that's great news then, nothing to worry about!

Thanks a lot.

Cheers,
Tina