Special characters output as HTML instead of actual character

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1

Hi lovely community,

I have a few fields in in my blueprints for meta tags, consisting of title, desc, tags and an image. I can type special characters in my local language(æøå), but they’re outputted in html as HTML entities (e.g. ø). I’ve already set utf-8 as the charset.

Here’s an example source code for a blog post. I’m also calling this in my config file:

 return [
    'debug' => true,
    'date.handler' => 'strftime',
    'locale' => 'da_DK.utf8',
    'routes' => [

Am I missing something obvious? Google just tells me to have the locale and charset set.

Thank you in advance!

Best,
Oliver

2

Hi Oliver,

How do you call the field in the template file? Like that: echo $page->fieldName()->html(); ?

3

Hi byybora,

Thanks for checking in! I’m calling the field like so:

<?php echo ($page->seodescription()->html()) ?>

I’ve also tried the following:

<?php echo html($page->seodescription()) ?>

With no luck. Let me know if you have an idea of what I’m doing wrong :slight_smile:
Thank you so much!

4

$field->html() uses htmlentities() function to output.
If you don’t want, you no need to calling ->html().

You can use just:

<?php echo $page->seodescription(); ?>
5

Ah obviously!! Real blunder here. Thank you so much!