How do youdisplay these charectors properly

Hello
I am trying to fix the issue i am having with words that contain special letters in them
Like a name(french name) for example, might have a letter like é with that extra thing above
Placing a letter like that on my site i get this � instead of this é
i tried adding
AddDefaultCharset Off
to my .htaccess file but that didn't help

how can i make these types of letters display properly
any help with this would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

 

you have to remove from your HTML code complete blockquote.

 

I really can't understand what is has to do with blockquote.

However, in order of characters to display properly, declare your charset in the META tag. for example

<META
http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=EUC-JP">

HTML:

That's a japanese character set. Now all you have to do is find out your charset.

For further reading,
http://webdesign.about.com/od/charactersets/a/aa112906.htm
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html

Hope this helps, and good luck.
If I'm wrong in any way please correct me.

 

Ignore creativewebmaster, nothing that user posts has made ANY sense in ANY thread.

META tag does jack **** if the server is sending it in the HTTP headers.

My advice is thus:

1) Configure your editor for UTF-8. Yes, you have to set your EDITOR for it.

2) declare the meta thus (this is for local testing, NOT deployment)

<meta
  http-equiv="Content-Type"
  content="text/html; charset=utf-8"
/>

Code (markup):

3) ... and this is the important step, make sure your SERVER is configured to deliver the files in question as UTF-8.

This can be set in the Server software's configuration/ini file... for Apache you'd add this to the httpd.conf file:

AddDefaultCharset utf-8

Code (markup):

You can also do it in the .htaccess thus targeting just .html files:

AddCharset UTF-8 .html

Code (markup):

Or if you are serving it as PHP, there's a function called 'header' that lets you set the header manually.

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

Code (markup):

You must choose a way for the server to send the correct HTTP header or it will NOT work, no matter what you say in your HTML or how you save it from the editor, because what the server sends as a HTTP response trumps everything else!

 

hello all
thanks for all the help
i found that adding this to the header of my pages html did the trick

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

Code (markup):

would this affect anything else