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Posted by André Alves
André Alves
1,231 Points

My name is André and when i write it in preview apears strange simbols how can i resolve this?

My name apears like Andr?@ Alves

2 Answers

kheiferfuller
kheiferfuller
8,635 Points
kheiferfuller
kheiferfuller
8,635 Points

The problem here comes from how the accent over the e is interpreted in your name André. It's seen by the editor as a special character so in order for it to be recognized you'd need to type the specific html code for it

So your html would look like this

André
André Alves
André Alves
1,231 Points
André Alves
André Alves
1,231 Points

Thank you so much!

kheiferfuller
kheiferfuller
8,635 Points

Anything outside the regular keyboard icons(and some of the ones on there as well) are sometimes seen as special characters depending on your code editor.

http://www.starr.net/is/type/htmlcodes.html

The above link is a fairly comprehensive list of the html codes for special characters.