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Special character configuration

You can specify the special characters that content authors can insert into a format area field in the SpecialCharacters.xml file.

About this task

If a Schema designer enables Special Characters formatting for a format area field, content authors will be able to select these characters and insert them directly into their text.

By default, the SpecialCharacters.xml configuration file includes the following special characters:
  • non-breaking space
  • copyright symbol
  • registered symbol
  • trademark symbol
  • section symbol
  • paragraph symbol
  • single opening quote
  • single closing quote
  • euro sign

Procedure

  1. On the Content Manager sever machine, navigate to %TRIDION_HOME%\web\WebUI\Models\baseeditor\Configuration\.
  2. Open SpecialCharacters.xml for editing.
  3. Configure the elements as follows:
    
    <Entries>
    	 <Entry>		
    		  <Value>STRINGORCHARACTER</Value>
    		  <Description lang="LANGNUMBER">STRINGORCHARDESCRIPTION</Description>
    	 </Entry>
    </Entries>
    where:
    • STRINGORCHARACTER specifies a string or single character, for example, <Value>&#160;</Value>. You can specify:
      • a text string or character, for example, a company name or product name that you use often
      • an HTML entity or ISO Latin-1 code, for example, accents or special characters such as the copyright symbol
    • STRINGORCHARDESCRIPTION is the description of the string or character, written in the language denoted by LANGNUMBER, as it will appear as a tooltip text in the Special Character dialog in Content Manager Explorer.
    • LANGNUMBER is a four-digit number denoting the language in which the description is written. You can configure multiple Description elements, each with the lang attribute set to a different four-digit number. The possible values for LANGNUMBER are:
      • 1031 for German
      • 1033 for English
      • 1034 for Spanish
      • 1036 for French
      • 1041 for Japanese
      • 1043 for Dutch
    The following Entry element shows how the trademark symbol would be configured:
    <Entry> 
    	 <Value>™</Value>
    	 <Description lang="1031">Markensymbol</Description>
    	 <Description lang="1033">trademark symbol</Description>
    	 <Description lang="1034">símbolo de marca comercial</Description>
    	 <Description lang="1036">symbole de marque</Description>
    	 <Description lang="1041">商標記号</Description>
    	 <Description lang="1043">handelsmerkteken</Description>
    </Language>
  4. Add more Entry sections for other strings or character you want to appear in the dialog.
  5. Save and close SpecialCharacters.xml.