DW CS3: Auto Conversion of Special Characters?

In DW 8 special characters entered or pasted into the text in
Design view, were automatically converted to & encoded values.
If you were typing ø, ø was inserted in the code.
This was very usefull when pasting large portions of non-English
text.
It seems that this feature has been disabled in DW CS3. Why?
How do I enable this feature again?

BennyO wrote:
> It seems that this feature has been disabled in DW CS3.
Why? How do I enable
> this feature again?
The feature has not been disabled. The default encoding in
CS3 is UTF-8,
which supports accented characters without the need to
convert them to
HTML entities, such as ø. All modern browsers
support UTF-8, so
there should be no need to use HTML entities, unless you are
saving
content in a database that doesn't also support UTF-8 (MySQL
3.23 or
4.0, for example).
If you want to go back to using HTML entities, change the
default
encoding to Western European (iso-8859-1).
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8" (friends of ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/

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Good day all and thanx for your help.
CS3 & trying out CS5.
A couple of the sites I do, are written in Afrikaans, ons of the 11 official languages in South Africa.
Afrikaans makes use of characters such as ê, ë, ô, ü, é, ö and so on. I normally forget to change it in code view and make use of &... It then displays as funny characters in browser. Is there a way I can learn/tell DW to auto change my special characters or do you perhaps have a good solution or tip for me.
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http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Software/Macromedia_Dreamweaver/Q_22706485 .html
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http://www.recipester.org/Recipe:Insert_special_characters_in_Dreamweaver_27537484
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