Fred T. Sanders

Well I’m trying out several different Blog Editors today. At first I thought that none of them were working properly, and was just about to give up and go back to justing using the online editor to write posts. Then after a bit of research, I discovered that it wasn’t the fault of the different editors I tried, but a problem with my host having an older libxml2 library. I was going to take up the battle with my host about getting it upgraded when I found a plug-in that would take care of it without the hassle. For those that are curious is called "libxml2-fix". The other problem I was having with the different editors was the handling of characters like apostrophes. Most of the editors would either replace them with the html special character equivalent which would break because of the libxml2 issue, or they just removed them all toghether, which is unacceptable. I fixed this issue by turning off UTF-8 encoding and letting WP fall back on Latin-1. Now that those two issues are resolved to my satisfaction, I can go back to testing the various Blog editors I’ve found and see which ones I like best.