Re: browser display of accented characters

On 22 Aug 2007 06:29:48 -0400
Haines Brown <brownh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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