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7 years 8 months ago #156722 by Louis Andreas Michaelsen
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Hi,

I would like to use an arrow in metadescription and vertical pipe → | - but the arrow turn in to a ? when saving? What is wrong?

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7 years 8 months ago #156725 by Krikor Boghossian
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Hello Luis,

By default all special characters are being stripped.
Hacking the extension is not recommended since it can lead to unexpected results. I can provide a solution which works on extrafields if you are interested.

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7 years 8 months ago #156728 by Louis Andreas Michaelsen
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Hi Krikor,

What my SEO-developer wants is something like this:

www.fritidsmagasinet.dk/ferie-rejser/1830-saadan-faar-du-erstatning-for-dit-aflyste-fly

The metadescription turned into something like:

Sådan får du erstatning for dit aflyste fly | Læs mere her → either in title or in metadescription. Is that good? But both places it turns into af ?

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7 years 8 months ago #156739 by Krikor Boghossian
Replied by Krikor Boghossian on topic Metadescription and special characters
The default way of Joomla! of handling meta tags would be to strip all illegal characters.

I would not recommned hacking the extension since it can lead to unexpected results.

Instead I would suggest reading this post
www.joomlaworks.net/forum/k2-en/40022-my-meta-name-and-meta-description-are-totally-broken

This one
www.joomlaworks.net/forum/k2-en/40912-meta-description-original-will-not-appear-in-the-google

And the ;TLDR
www.joomlaworks.net/forum/k2-en/40022-my-meta-name-and-meta-description-are-totally-broken#140600

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