Russian characters in html editor

[rus3439]

I am wriring a website in html and want to put russian text in it. However, when i type russian characters in html editor like (Text Pad or Dreamweaver) the character don't come out right. They do come out right , however, when i view my website. This part is right because of the tag that i have at the beginning of the code.
Is there any way to type it in html editor and actually see what you typing. I can type it in Microsoft Word fine, but when i paste it to html editor it gives me this "?".
Please help,
Thanks
Ruslan

[tedster]

I've had some similar struggles, and what I've learned is that most HTML editing software can handle any character-set you need, but you often need to configure the program to do this.

I don't use Macromedia's Dreamweaver, but I do use Macromedia's Homesite 5.5, which has extensive language functionality for the editor, configured under Options>Settings>Editor. Since Macromedia also makes Dreamweaver, I'm sure there is a similar configuration available. You may find some help in our WYSIWYG Editors Forum [webmasterworld.com] where a lot of Dreaweaver conversations take place.

Also, surprisingly, the Netscape Composer that comes with Netscape 7 Communicator does a decent job with many character sets. It does however, play it a bit loose withthe html itself.