Hello,

In Firefox, i notice the following webpage shows French characters like é showing OK in the middle text, but as a little square on the right text:

http://www.artofmodelling.be/pages/i...ng=fr&Itemid=8

This is a Joomla installation. The middle text comes out of the database and is a Joomla article. The right text however is from an home-made php include file (with define('','')) different for each language.

Any idea why it is shown correct in the middle, but not on the right?

Thanks!

Matt

set the character set of the page to UTF

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html

Originally Posted by chrishirst

set the character set of the page to UTF

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html

i tried this already, but it changed the problem around: the right colum was ok, the middle now displayed weird characters.

You have to set your character set on both files.

It's only including what it sees. In this case foreign characters in that include file that it doesn't know how to process.

Originally Posted by marketingman100

You have to set your character set on both files.

It's only including what it sees. In this case foreign characters in that include file that it doesn't know how to process.

ok, and how do i do that?
just to be sure: the include file is just a php file containing a list of several define('',''), its not a html file.

All text files have embedded character encoding. Make sure your editor is using UTF as well

Originally Posted by chrishirst

All text files have embedded character encoding. Make sure your editor is using UTF as well

ok, now once again: how?

Dunno, I know how in the editor that I use but yours?

Just add a Meta command with characterset UTF-8 to the php file also.

PHP files can generate HTML.

As for setting your editor, look under options for it's base charset.