Tips & Tricks for the Rich Text Editor

How do I Use Greek & Other Special Characters

The easiest way is to use the symbol icon in the editor toolbar.  

If you don't see the symbol you need in the list, you can add additional ones by modifying the special character file.   The file is an HTML file and can be edited with any HTML editor or text editor.  Make sure to save a copy of the file outside your Contour directory to replace after upgrading.

The file is located {Contour Installation}\WebApps\Contour\Js\FCKEditor\editor\dialog\fck_specialchar.html

You can look up the codes for the characters in these reference pages, then append the codes with a comma between them to the line that looks like the following. I've appended the "& Alpha" character.

• Using Greek Letters in HTML

• Greek Letter Reference

Alternatives:

If your team uses IE, you can add the Symbol (or other) fonts to the editor and choose those within the browser.  You'll need to know what letters correspond to which symbols.  The file is located...

{Contour Installation}\WebApps\Contour\Js\FCKConfigs\contourFCKEditor.js

The file can be edited with any text editor.  Look for the fonts section and append the name of the font (It must be available on the client PC), then restart Contour server.  The downside of this approach is the characters won't display properly in other browsers such as Mozilla.  You can read in depth on why this is here.