Muse and the beyond annoying and awkward menus help with French titles with accents that don't work?

Question

I am doing a French/English site.  The only way I can do this is do two sites and then do creative linking.  That sucks.  Go Live allowed me to have as many pages as I wanted and Menu Machine worked pretty decently as it allowed me to have different menus so a bilingual site was a piece of cake.  Now I have to do two different sites and the problem is some of the page names in french have accents as needed in that language.  The village idiots at adobe did not take that into account and now of couse I have an issue and will need to create navigation for the french elsewhere and import as a graphic.  This is beyond stupid.  Anybody have a solution. Adobe told me too bad so sad the software is in its' infancy. Well then why the hell did they get rid of Golive which worked well for designers.  Because Muse is so dumbed down I am not able to do anything about the menus as the menus are dictated by the page names.  If you decide to do a manual menu you can not have just words with state changes as the bloody menus sytem will not allow that. The design requires just the words having state changes this is not abnormal.  REALLY.  I am beyond frustrated and pissed off and equally pissed off Adobe hangs us out to dry not even having phone contact just some dudes in Inia on the chat which sucked.  Any solutions? Anybody at Adobe actually understand this is a problem and might suggest it will be fixed in updates but in the meantime help me solve th eproblem easily.  I can live without stupid scrolling I would rather have solid software that is easy to use and some degree of fleixibility if you are a seasoned designer who does a lot of web. But dumbed down for the folks who just want to do a simple site.  Yikes this is frustrating. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Village idiot here, apparently...
In Page Properties you can independently set the page name (used in menu widgets), the page title (displayed in the browser tab) and the file name for the .html file for the page.
To create a menu where only the appearance of the text change across states:
1) select a menu item
2) select each state in the State panel and click the trash can to clear all pre-existing state-specific formating
3) choose the Normal state and set all the text formatting that will be the same across all states
4) select mouse down, roll over or active state
4) set the text properties you want for that state in the Text Panel
5) repeat for the other two states
6) you may want to set the fill and stroke on the menu item Normal state to none, so only the text of the menu items is visible
The automatic "All Pages" and "Top Level" pages menu functionality is currently limited to being site-wide, so for the multi-lingual site you describe your choices are to have one automatic and one manual menu, two manual menus, or create two sites. It depends on the size of your site, the complexity of your menu and your personal preference which is best for your case.
If accents are not being preserved through your workflow, please share:
1) URL for an example page that demonstrates mangled accents
2) How you're uploading your site? Publish to BC? File > Upload to FTP Host? Export and external FTP client?
3) If you're not hosting with Adobe (BC), who's your hosting provider.
If accents are not being preserved that generally indicates a problem with how the files are being transferred to the server and/or a problem with how the server is configured. The output of Muse fully supports accented characters throughout the workflow.
Many members of the user community are active here, along with the technical support team and several members of the development team, like myself. We generally respond most effectively to clear questions with screenshots, URLs of example page, etc.
There are a lot of tutorials, videos, templates, widgets, etc. available online from Adobe and other sources:
http://muse.adobe.com
http://lynda.com
http://muse-themes.com
http://musegrid.com
http://qooqee.com
http://muselayers.com
http://museresources.com
http://museworld.com
etc.