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#107241 Character Map - Adding own Characters

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Latest post by bobbla on Friday, 02 April 2021 12:32 BST

Friday, 26 March 2021 11:13 GMT

bobbla
In JCE its a Character Map for inserting special Characters as plain HTML, how can I add my own Characters? ie. { = ❴ ? In the code view, it keeps going back to the { when I use the Character Map to insert it.

In profiles its possible to add more Characters.

Friday, 26 March 2021 12:12 GMT

Ryan
In Editor Profiles -> Plugin Parameters -> Character Map, you can add custom characters, so in your case, create 2 entries for the left and right Medium Curly Bracket Ornament, eg:

https://cdn.joomlacontenteditor.net/tmp/107241-character-map-adding-own-characters.jpg

Ryan Demmer

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Friday, 26 March 2021 17:02 GMT

bobbla
I have done this, but when I use the Character Map in an article it Reset the code to { and } it does not show the HTML Code

Saturday, 27 March 2021 11:17 GMT

Ryan
Are you inserting the new brackets using the Character Map dialog? The new brackets will not replace existing {} brackets, they have to be inserted using the dialog or pasted in.

Ryan Demmer

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Edited by Ryan on 2021-03-27 11:18 GMT

Monday, 29 March 2021 21:48 BST

bobbla
I write tutorials about Joomla like this
https://www.joomlaforever.com/Basic-Tutorials/how-to-add-styles-in-joomla-without-html-code-in-jce-editor

I want to include ie the field tag like this {field 1} only displaying it like HTML code so the field does not appear, that's why the HTML entity ❴ as { and so on but the HTML code disappear after saving. I have turned off the validate HTML.

Monday, 29 March 2021 22:01 BST

bobbla
When i use the Character Map it won't insert the HTML entity eighter.

Wednesday, 31 March 2021 11:09 BST

Ryan
Is the character removed only when you save, or if you switch to the Code tab?

Ryan Demmer

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Wednesday, 31 March 2021 16:53 BST

bobbla
Both times 🙂

Wednesday, 31 March 2021 16:54 BST

Ryan
I think I might be misunderstanding the issue. Please send me a login - https://www.joomlacontenteditor.net/contact/site-login - and include any information you can to replicate the issue on your site.

Ryan Demmer

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Thursday, 01 April 2021 12:08 BST

bobbla
I will first try to elaborate:


I write articles with plain content, in some articles I want to include content that conflicts with Joomla's method to display for instance a field included like {field 1}. This works great.

I want to write in HTML {field 1} as ❴field 1&10101; witch displays the { and } as an HTML Entity not conflicting with the nametag {field 1} using the insert with Character Map, but when I change to Code it displays as { and }. I have also tried to insert the HTML Entity directly in HTML, this works on first save, but when I open the article again to edit it, it goes back to plain {field 1}, and not ❴field 1&10101;.

Thursday, 01 April 2021 12:10 BST

bobbla
the post does not display the 

{field 1}

Thursday, 01 April 2021 12:10 BST

bobbla
{ field 1 }

Thursday, 01 April 2021 12:16 BST

Ryan
In the Editor Global Configuration, what is the Entity Encoding option set to?

Ryan Demmer

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Thursday, 01 April 2021 12:35 BST

bobbla
UTF-8

Thursday, 01 April 2021 14:41 BST

Ryan
This is working fine for me in my tests, see below: https://cdn.joomlacontenteditor.net/tmp/107241-character-map-adding-own-characters.gif but, I think there is a better way to do this, without using {} in the article at all, but using css to display them. Add the following to your template stylesheet: 

span.curly-brackets {
	display: inline-block;
	background-color: #eee;
}

span.curly-brackets:before {
	content: "{";
}

span.curly-brackets:after {
	content: "}";
}
Then, go to Editor Profiles -> Plugin Parameters -> Style Select, and create a new Custom Style, as in the image below (Tag value set to span and curly-brackets in the Classes field) https://cdn.joomlacontenteditor.net/tmp/107241-character-map-adding-own-characters-2.jpg You can now select some text, then select the Curly Brackets option from the Styles list to apply the span and curly-brackets class.

Ryan Demmer

Lead Developer / CEO / CTO

Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean everybody isn't out to get you.

Friday, 02 April 2021 10:34 BST

bobbla
Yes, I know that this works, but this will display field 1 as a Custom Field or not display at all in the Joomla article after saving. I want to use the Entity to display the { and }

Friday, 02 April 2021 10:53 BST

Ryan
I want to use the Entity to display the { and }


I sugeested using the css approach as this will not actually write {} to the content, so it won't be processed by Joomla plugins, it will display in the content as {field1}. I assumed that this is what you wanted.

Ryan Demmer

Lead Developer / CEO / CTO

Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean everybody isn't out to get you.

Friday, 02 April 2021 11:44 BST

bobbla
THX For good help!

Friday, 02 April 2021 12:26 BST

bobbla
THis CSS method don't display the curly brackets in the article

Friday, 02 April 2021 12:32 BST

bobbla
Sorry it did show up, my bad 😛