Great component. However, I great difficulty using symbols in my contents. The Bot likes to convert ® (Registered Trademark Symbol) into ®. Please advise this also happens on the Copyright symbols. Please let me know what I must update to keep this from happening.
Your assistance in this matter is much appreciated.

Regards,

Wes

P.S. - the symbols look fine in while viewing content in the administration areas, but always have the preceding  when included in content. Article titles do not allow the use of the long form of (& c o p y ;) to create symbols. So that work around does not suit my needs. I need all content parsed by ARTIO bot to not change the symbol by adding a preceding Â.

Hello,

the ARTIO metabot does not really "rewrite" anything. It just takes the meta information you have defined for your URLs and puts that to the meta tags in your page header. It does not modify the data in any way.

Also, it works only with metas and page title, so it does not interfere with the page contents at all. What you are writing about sounds to me more like a problem with correctly set encoding. This kind of behavior is quite typical e.g. in cases, when you use latin1 in your site administration and then you show the page in UTF-8.

But maybe I am wrong, however I cannot imagine how JoomSEF could cause what you describe. If you could paste link to the problematic pages, it might help.

Best regards,
ARTIO Support Team