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Web Experiment without special German characters on launch page

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By Coati - 4/1/2016

Dear all, 

I just uploaded my experiment to Inquisit to run it as an online study. Now I am facing the following problem:

For me it is necessary to create a German launch page at the beginning of the experiment. But when I type in the text under "Enter any text you'd like to display on the launch page (optional):" and click on Save or Next, Inquisit transfers all the special German characters (ä,ö,ü,ß) into question marks. And the line breaks I enter disappear as well. I saw previous scripts on our licence, which showed the special characters. And when I enter a headline for the launch page it shows them too. But I couldn't figure out how to display them correctly in the text. 

Is there any help?

Thanks! 

Jakob.
By Dave - 4/3/2016

You can use <br> HTML tags for line breaks and HTML entities for umlauts respectively. Example:

https://www.millisecond.com/forums/uploads/images/75a1040d-1be9-4077-8639-f3de.png

Result: http://research.millisecond.com/david.nitz/tx.web

https://www.millisecond.com/forums/uploads/images/2f6b546a-6fc1-440c-924f-d2e5.png

The characters you need can be encoded as follows in HTML:
https://www.millisecond.com/forums/uploads/images/ead34624-9888-470c-91a3-a6c2.png