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French accents are not supported with any char encoding

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gcarbonia
gcarbonia

In French words with accents (mainly acutes, also circumflex etc) as in : sérieuse (sérieuse) v�lo (vélo) the word becomes unreadable. This is recent but repetitive and could be FF 4 which I just installed. Have tried all combinations of character encoding in View and in Tools/Content/fonts. Western Windows 1252 is the default, but I have the impression that it's erratic and that sometimes it works...irritating. Thanks 4 your help anyone

In French words with accents (mainly acutes, also circumflex etc) as in : sérieuse (sérieuse) v�lo (vélo) the word becomes unreadable. This is recent but repetitive and could be FF 4 which I just installed. Have tried all combinations of character encoding in View and in Tools/Content/fonts. Western Windows 1252 is the default, but I have the impression that it's erratic and that sometimes it works...irritating. Thanks 4 your help anyone

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cor-el
cor-el
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That is the Unicode representation (sérieuse, sérieuse) of sérieuse that shows in your post, so make sure that you select Unicode (UTF-8) if you see that instead.

wde_bien
wde_bien

UTF-8 doesn't help. It may be just on certain websites though. On the French site I have a problem with, the staff tell me to use Western Windows, which has worked, but now does not. Am I supposed to use 'Customise' (which doesn't appear to work) or to check/uncheck 'Auto detect', or 'Universal' ? I'm lost.

cor-el
cor-el
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If Firefox doesn't detect the correct encoding then you can try "Auto-Detect > Universal" if you do not know which decoding to use on such a page. "Auto-Detect > Universal" usually works, but can cause a wrong encoding to be used.