how to get rid of crappy characters

[boneless]

Hi all,

when I put a character like é or á or ö on my website, it shows up all
crappy. I think this may have something to do with the charset, but can
anyone tell me what to do to change this? I mean what to do, so the site
shows a ë really as ë.

Problem started when I switched from blogger to B2 (which uses php).
I've tried adding the line
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
but that don''t do the trick.

Anyone know of any solution?

Thanks
Boneless
www.boneless.nl

 

[Jukka K. Korpela]

when I put a character like é or á or ö on my website, it shows up
all crappy.

Do you expect us to help without seeing a URL of a demonstration of the
problem?

I think this may have something to do with the charset,

It may, or it may not.

Problem started when I switched from blogger to B2 (which uses php).

Means nothing to me. Or to a browser - what matters is what it produces.

I've tried adding the line
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1"> but that don''t do the trick.

Well, to begin with, if the server actually sends a Content-Type header
with a charset parameter, then the browser must (by specification) ignore
and actually ignores (by existing implementations) that <meta> tag.

Do you see now why a URL is needed?

 

[Kim André Akerø]

Hi all,

when I put a character like é or á or ö on my website, it shows up all
crappy. I think this may have something to do with the charset, but can
anyone tell me what to do to change this? I mean what to do, so the site
shows a ë really as ë.

Problem started when I switched from blogger to B2 (which uses php).
I've tried adding the line
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
but that don''t do the trick.

Anyone know of any solution?

You might be better off using entities.
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entitiesref.asp

é = &eacute;
á = &aacute;
ö = &ouml;
ë = &euml;

Just to pick the ones you mentioned in your original post.

 

[boneless]

Do you see now why a URL is needed?

Excuses and even more excuses!
The url is www.boneless.nl
the real index-file is found at www.boneless.nl/blog/index.php

Anything else needed?

Thanks, Boneless

 

[WebcastMaker]

Excuses and even more excuses!
The url is www.boneless.nl
the real index-file is found at www.boneless.nl/blog/index.php
Anything else needed?

Well a little better attitude from the person requesting help might be
nice...

 

[Neal]

Excuses and even more excuses!
The url is www.boneless.nl
the real index-file is found at www.boneless.nl/blog/index.php

ê displays properly. I find no instances of "é or á or ö" on your
page, either in source or page, nor as a direct character or an entity.

See http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/entities , perhaps this helps.

 

[Jukka K. Korpela]

ê displays properly. I find no instances of "é or á or ö" on your
page, either in source or page, nor as a direct character or an entity.

Indeed. And the page is declared (both in HTTP headers and in a <meta>
tag) as being in UTF-8 encoding, so my wild guess is that the OP tried to
enter accented letters "just by typing them" - using a program that
enters them in ISO 8859-1 (or windows-1252 or whatever) encoding. They
won't work then of course (but character references and entity references
work).

 

[Sid Ismail]

: > Do you see now why a URL is needed?
:
: Excuses and even more excuses!
: The url is www.boneless.nl


Excuses? What's this - your personal helpdesk? Paid for?

Sid

 

[Starshine Moonbeam]

You might be better off using entities.
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entitiesref.asp

é = &eacute;
É

á = &aacute;
Á

ö = &ouml;
Ö

ë = &euml;
&#203


Just to pick the ones you mentioned in your original post.

Another way to code those characters.

 

[Guest]

Hi all,

when I put a character like é or á or ö on my website, it shows up all
crappy. I think this may have something to do with the charset, but can
anyone tell me what to do to change this? I mean what to do, so the site
shows a ë really as ë.

How are these characters represented in the generated HTML? Are they
literals? Does the HTML used named entities (&egrave? Or how about
numeric entities (é)?

You will likely get better mileage with entities, especially if the
character literal is not defined in your page's charset.

For my Hawaiian pages, I have to use UTF-8 for everything to show up
properly.

HTH,
La'ie Techie