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htmllearner44
post Jun 17 2013, 06:48 AM
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Hi,

The french accent characters in my webpage are not displayed properly. I am using utf-8 with the meta tag as below, but the web page is not displaying the accent character properly. So I tried ISO-8859-1 which spoils the CSS formatting in my webpage . So I am really stuck now. Please help!!!

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

Thanks.
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Frederiek
post Jun 17 2013, 07:35 AM
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Please post the url to the page.
BTW, have you also saved the file itself in Unicode (UTF-8) in your text-editor?
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post Jun 17 2013, 07:56 AM
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What Frederiek said. Also, if the server sends another character encoding in a HTTP header, it would override your meta tag.
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post Jun 17 2013, 09:36 AM
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Thanks Frederiek & Pandy.
There are no server imposements in these webpages. I have a set of webpages which are called using href for mockup.
So a sample HTML file that I use is below and the documents are saved in UTF-8 format using notepad++


<!doctype html>

<html lang="en">

<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>statement</title>
<link href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:300,700" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../assets/css/base.css" />
<script src="../assets/js/jquery-1.8.2.min.js"></script>
<script src="../assets/js/jquery.easing.min.js"></script>
<script src="../assets/js/jquery.cookie.js"></script>
<script src="../assets/js/base.min.js"></script>
<script src="../assets/js/SNT.js"></script>
</head>

<body id="statement">

<div id="container">

<div id="content">

<div id="content-left">

<div id="logo"><img src="../assets/images/logo.png" alt="Statement" width="212" height="61" /></div>

<div class="left top opacity-40">

<h2>Relevé</h2>

</div></div></div></div>

</body>
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post Jun 17 2013, 09:46 AM
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That works for me (saved in BBEdit (Mac only) which I have set to save with UTF-8 by default). Even if I resave the file with ISO latin 1.

I am talking about the character encoding of the file itself when you save it. I hope you understood that.
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post Jun 17 2013, 10:01 AM
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QUOTE(htmllearner44 @ Jun 17 2013, 04:36 PM) *

There are no server imposements in these webpages.


Do you mean you view them locally on your own computer?
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post Jun 17 2013, 10:56 AM
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Oddly enough, I'm seeing all kinds of characters - like the Cicero quote marks - showing up as little boxes. It's only happening here so far, and only in the posts. I have UTF-8 as the default.

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What Frederiek said. Also, if the server sends another character encoding in a HTTP header, it would override your meta tag.
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post Jun 17 2013, 11:17 AM
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I also do actually, but only recently. It looks like the forum has started to convert my quote entities to *gulp* curly quotes. They are like that even in the field where I edit my signature. I'll as Darin if there has been a recent upgrade to the forum and replace my quotes with simple ones.
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post Jun 17 2013, 11:50 AM
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Yes. I understood that. I can see the encoding of the file is UTF-8 (encoding tab in notepad++) and it gives me the options to convert them to other encoding as well.

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That works for me (saved in BBEdit (Mac only) which I have set to save with UTF-8 by default). Even if I resave the file with ISO latin 1.

I am talking about the character encoding of the file itself when you save it. I hope you understood that.
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post Jun 17 2013, 11:51 AM
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QUOTE(pandy @ Jun 17 2013, 04:01 PM) *

QUOTE(htmllearner44 @ Jun 17 2013, 04:36 PM) *

There are no server imposements in these webpages.


Do you mean you view them locally on your own computer?


Yes. I view them locally on my own computer.
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post Jun 17 2013, 12:07 PM
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Maybe you enforce the wrong character encoding in your browser. Have you checked?
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post Jun 18 2013, 01:38 AM
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@Pandy
Ah, now the quotes in your sig are correct. I already wondered why they weren't. I didn't change anything in my browser.

@OP
Lets try this: post a file that you can attach in a reply.
Then, we don't have to copy/paste/save in an editor that is already set to UTF-8.
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post Jun 18 2013, 02:35 AM
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I didn't change anything either. The board did. Well, now I've changed to plain quotes and a plain hyphen.
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