I use some special characters (vowels with an accent mark), these are not showing up properly, whereas they do on my old IE browser-can anyone help?
Here's an example. The Irish word "Lúnasa" is showing up as "L�nasa" when I post it in places such as Yahoo! Groups. This does not happen with my old IE browser. Thanks for any help!
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Did you check the encoding and make sure that it is correct?
You probably need UTF-8 in this case.
- Firefox > Web Developer > Character Encoding
Thanks for your reply! Yes, I had set the encoding to UTF-8 to match that in my old IE8 browser, so I'm out of ideas.
Do you also have that problem with "Lúnasa" in your first post on this forum?
It is possible that there is a font problem and that the specified font doesn't have those accented characters.
No, the first "Lúnasa" looks correct. The second one is how it appears after posting it to a Yahoo! Group. It's odd, because when I view the same post in the Yahoo! Group via IE8, it looks fine. Just to fill out the details, I wrote the original "Lúnasa" in MS Word, then copied and pasted it into my Yahoo post. Needless to say, I am confused!
Thanks again for you help!
That version of Lúnasa that you typed in Word may have been a different encoding (not Unicode, but a Western or Windows encoding).
I'll check into that, but the IE8 is set to UTF-8 as well... and I'm not sure why it is showing up properly in here. By the way, I am having the same problem on other websites, too (not just Yahoo!).