Accentuation and Symbols

Understand how HyperFluxCMS copes with symbols and accented letters

HyperFluxCMS automatically handles letter accentuation and many other non-ASCII symbols, such as some Greek letters and monetary symbols. Understand how.

Anyone who has worked with HTML pages knows that some symbols and all accented letters are represented by codes. The most common and traditional are "HTML Entities". For example, the capital letter A with an acute accent (Á), is represented by "Á"

HyperFluxCMS works directly with original letters and symbols, and converts them to HTML Entities when the page is saved.

Therefore, whoever writes the posts, in any of the markup languages, should write the content text normally, as if it were common text, using symbols and accented letters, without worry.

Disabling accentuation in HTML

It may be that you are pasting plain HTML code that was imported from an existing page or created using an editor designed for HTML. In this case, the code will have already converted accented letters and special symbols into HTML entities. If you use it directly in HyperFluxCMS, the final result will be different from expected. Because, for example, when using the word "Ação", which in HTML is represented by Ação, HyperFluxCMS will try to convert the & symbol into the corresponding HTML entity, which is \& Thus, in the final code it will be Ação, which will appear to the visitor as Ação, which is certainly not what you want.

If you are using pre-processed HTML code, you must convert the HTML entities into plain text. There are online tools to do this. The PSPad editor, for example, available for free, has this option in Tools -> Custom Converters -> Named HTML entities to chars.

Another recommended option is to use the Html Pre-Processor tool, available for download at hyperfluxcms.com/download to prepare the HTML text to be used in the post.