Fixing Strange Characters In Upcoming Events List

The appearance of strange characters or symbols in the upcoming events list is caused by the presence of non standard characters in the title or description of an event.  These characters may be part of a non english language or may have been pasted into the title or event description from another document or program.

The improper rendering of these characters is usually caused by the character set declared in the html of the web page containing the upcoming events list.  There are three ways to remedy this situation:

1. Do not use the special characters in event titles or descriptions

Edit the event and change the problem character to a standard keyboard character. This solution may not be ideal if the special characters are needed to support the language of your website.  In this case, use one of the following options.

2. Change the character set declaration in the web page containing the upcoming events list

Edit your web page and find the character set declaration statements which may look like:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

Change the character set to one that displays the special characters as they should appear.  For example:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />

You can find a list of character set names at: http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/ref_charactersets.asp

3. Change the javascript code for the upcoming events list

Edit your web page and change the upcoming events list javascript from:

<script type="text/javascript" src=http://www.calendarwiz.com/calendars/ucfeeder.php?crd=yourcalendaridentifier></script>

to include a charset declaration that displays the special characters as they should appear.  For example:

<script type="text/javascript" charset="ISO-8859-1" src=http://www.calendarwiz.com/calendars/ucfeeder.php?crd=yourcalendaridentifier></script>

Be sure to change yourcalendaridentier to that of your calendar.

You can find a list of character set names at: http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/ref_charactersets.asp