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**Barbie** · 12-18-2010, 02:26 PM

I am doing my first Spanish language site and having a hard time with the character codes showing correctly in the browser.

If you look at this page, juegos de princesas, you can see what I am talking about. When I look at it with Firefox or Safari there is a diamond with a question mark in it for the one letter in esc�ndalo.

I have tried changing the encoding of the page to
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

but this does not fix the problem

Any one have an idea?

**chrishirst** · 12-18-2010, 02:39 PM

Use a UTF-8 character set

**Barbie** · 12-18-2010, 02:51 PM

I have tried that but it still doesn't work.

**chrishirst** · 12-18-2010, 03:09 PM

use a Windows-1252 character set.

use HTML Entities for the special characters.

Add the Spanish language set to your browser.

**Barbie** · 12-18-2010, 06:17 PM

That still does not help. I go to other Spanish language sites and they look ok and use iso-8859-1. But when I set my site to that it looks screwy.

**Katerina** · 01-11-2011, 06:19 AM

I've visited the site and don't have any problems with coding. I use Mozilla Firework. Of course, I have some problems with characters in Word transcription, but the only reason why is that I didn't set up the setting for it.

**jsd132** · 01-11-2011, 06:26 AM

try using the lang tab for spanish it will be...

Quote:

also u need to update the charset

src:

Quote:

http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/i...s/langtag.html

**Puddlemut** · 01-26-2011, 05:09 PM

If you are still having problems with the Spanish characters displaying correctly...you can always fix them with the proper character entity code:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp

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