IDE seems to mangle html 4.0 entities

[Xavier J]

Hi,

I'm having a problem where any time I use html 4.0 entities in an .aspx page
(i.e. ™, &lambda, ©, etc) somehow the entities are removed and replaced with
their unicode equivalents embedded in the text directly. This is annoying as
hell, because all the browsers we support can't use the unicode but can
decode the html entity.

What am i doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Andrew Morton]

I'm having a problem where any time I use html 4.0 entities in an
.aspx page (i.e. T, &lambda, ©, etc) somehow the entities are removed
and replaced with their unicode equivalents embedded in the text
directly. This is annoying as hell, because all the browsers we
support can't use the unicode but can decode the html entity.

What am i doing wrong?

Yeah, it's a right pain. I'm guessing you're using VS2003 (or maybe VS2005 -
haven't tried that) and it happens when you go into design mode. I also
assume that using 21st-century browsers is not an option, so the only
answers I know of are to either not go into design mode or change to VS2008.

Andrew