CharacterPal and Keyboard Characters
by Mason Sklar on September 17, 2007 2:10 AM in Widgets.

If there's any support email we get the most (besides PayPal's annoying donation alerts), it's probably "How do I use CharacterPal? I can get the keyboard characters like "æ" to work, but when I drag and drop the other characters it just gives me the code, like ☤ What am I doing wrong?"

The answer? Nothing. You're doing nothing wrong- that's how it works.


You see, when developers write HTML (the stuff webpages are made in), they have to type special codes to get special symbols to render correctly (and HTML emails, too). However, they do not work in, say, Microsoft Word or your everyday text editor. As much as we wish we could fix this, we simply can't provide a solution at the moment given the constraints of Dashboard, so the best thing we can tell you is to just try to avoid typing those characters. However, you can use the ones in that first menu item ("Keyboard").

Thanks for reading. :)



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