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Looking for a code editor that supports symbols

Asked by Jaap Bo

In Windows I used Arisesoft Winsyntax for html and php publishing. In Ubuntu I have problems with the symbols. I tried Quanta+ and Screem. E.g. the symbol ½ in Screem becomes ½ on a web-page. Quanta+ distorts it even more.
Does anyone know of a code-editor for Ubuntu that can handle symbols properly?

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Best Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini) said : 		#1

The problem is not of the editor, but of the encoding you are using. Set it to UTF-8 or use the syntax &xx; for non-ASCII characters.

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Jaap Bo (jcbosma) said : 		#2

Thx, this works.
In Screem at preferences I changed the default character set to UTF-8.
I also put an extra line '<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" >' in my html-file.