Strange characters encoding with CS3

I have just installed Web premium CS3 and am working on my
first new project
with Dreamweaver. All good so far except - it is not encoding
some special
characters properly. For instance if I type £50 in the
design window, it
appears as £50 in code view - rather than &pound50:
Same thing with quotes - it does not always put the
" into code view.
Same deal with dashes.
Must be a default setting I guess but I've been using
Dreamweaver since
Version 3 and never had to deal with this before.
Thanks
James Loudon
www.fatgraphics.com
websites::photography::video

Thanks very much David. I think it may well be a server
problem.
James Loudon
www.fatgraphics.com
websites::photography::video
"David Powers" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:f8f840$gad$[email protected]..
> James Loudon wrote:
>> I see, okay how do get it to act "incorrectly" and
actually render these
>> things properly in browsers?
>
> All modern browsers should render UTF-8 encoding
correctly. UTF-8 is
> Unicode, which supports just about every written
language on the planet.
>
> However, if pages aren't displaying correctly with UTF-8
encoding, go to
> Preferences > New Document, and set the default
encoding to Western
> European. Dreamweaver will then insert HTML entities for
special
> characters.
>
> Either way, Dreamweaver will be acting correctly. If
special characters
> don't display correctly when using UTF-8 encoding, it
suggests there's
> something wrong with the browser or that your remote
server is
> automatically sending HTTP headers that set the encoding
to iso-8859-1
> (Western European). Headers sent by the web server
override the encoding
> set in the meta tag of a web page.
>
> --
> David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
> Author, "The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3"
(friends of ED)
> Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
>
http://foundationphp.com/

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