Questions on Quanta 3.5

[bluestrobe]

I use Quanta 3.5 for my html/css/php editing. In the past I used Dreamweaver and never had an issue. Most of my web site content is created using a word processor and directly pasted into the html editor.

The issues I am having is when opening a page to edit, there are random spaces between words. They just appear in the editor and don't save that way for some reason. Is this normal? It makes it hard to proof read where there are extra spaces all over like that. Also is there a way to make it leave an improperly coded quotation mark or apostrophe instead of putting a circled ? in there. I found out the hard way when I saved the html document and it made all the circled question marks into an assortment of characters on the finished page. Most times dreamweaver just left them alone and didn?t convert them to someone not wanted.

Also Quanta likes to crash without warning about every 6 hours of use. Makes it fun recovering documents.

 

[drag]

The spacing could be a issue between Unix vs DOS file formats. It has to do with the endline character. DOS-style text when they get read into Unix editors often end up with a lot of ^M characters. Quanta could be hiding these, but it's messing up whitespace formatting.

There is a simple dos2unix utility that you can use to convert a text file. See if that makes a difference on the files your editing.