Re: browser display of accented characters

On 22 Aug 2007 06:29:48 -0400
Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure when this problem came up, but perhaps when I upgraded to
> etch. Put simply, my browsers no longer can display accented
> characters.
>
> For example, I create a little test file with a and u umlaut and e
> ecute:
>
> This is a test
> ä ü é
>
> Xterm can display them, but in galeon and iceweasal they are broken:
>
> This is a test
> ä ü é
>
> I try to use the browser defaults, and the default for both browsers
> is "serif". I'm not sure what my system interprets that as (Times New
> Roman?), but I'd assume it is with a font that supports normal
> accented characters.
>

The charset you specify in the header (or the meta tag) must match that of the file saved in. The problem looks like you saved your file in UTF-8 (your system default?), and try to display it as ISO-8859-x. Either save the file using the ISO encoding, or set the header to UTF-8.

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