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French characters don’t appear correctly

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Hello! I have a little problem and I hope you might help. I was trying to find a solution on-line but I couldn't. So if you know how to solve it or a link which might help me to solve it, please, tell me. So I created a couple of web sites: http://jeunesse.ludilangues.com/caravane/ http://jeunesse.ludilangues.com/nous_strasbourgeois/

The problem is that they don’t open properly in Firefox browser. French characters don’t appear correctly (é instead of é, À instead of À, ê instead of ê and so on ...)

Chrome, Opera and even IE open them perfectly, but Firefox displays them correctly only if I change Character Coding manually when I am on the web site. When Firefox opens my sites, it encodes them with Western (ISO-8859-1) and adds some symbols: . But in DreamWeaver, where I am developing the sites, I have charset=utf-8 and no extra symbols.

Do you understand the problem? Can you help? Thank you!

Hello! I have a little problem and I hope you might help. I was trying to find a solution on-line but I couldn't. So if you know how to solve it or a link which might help me to solve it, please, tell me. So I created a couple of web sites: http://jeunesse.ludilangues.com/caravane/ http://jeunesse.ludilangues.com/nous_strasbourgeois/ The problem is that they don’t open properly in Firefox browser. French characters don’t appear correctly (é instead of é, À instead of À, ê instead of ê and so on ...) Chrome, Opera and even IE open them perfectly, but Firefox displays them correctly only if I change Character Coding manually when I am on the web site. When Firefox opens my sites, it encodes them with Western (ISO-8859-1) and adds some symbols: . But in DreamWeaver, where I am developing the sites, I have charset=utf-8 and no extra symbols. Do you understand the problem? Can you help? Thank you!

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I solved it!))

If anybody has the same problem and is interested, that is how I solved it:

In DW I changed this: dreamweaver -> preferences -> New document -> deselect Include UNicode (BOUM). Then I cut and pasted my code.

And on the server I put a .htaccess file with "AddDefaultCharset UTF-8" inside.

Sorry for bothering:)

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Chosen Solution

I solved it!))

If anybody has the same problem and is interested, that is how I solved it:

In DW I changed this: dreamweaver -> preferences -> New document -> deselect Include UNicode (BOUM). Then I cut and pasted my code.

And on the server I put a .htaccess file with "AddDefaultCharset UTF-8" inside.

Sorry for bothering:)

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You have a byte order mark (BOM: ) in the file to specify the encoding, but the server may be configured to send the file as western iso-8859-1

Firefox ignores the encoding in a meta tag and BOM directions if the server sends an encoding via the response headers.
It is usually best to make sure that the editor doesn't add such a BOM at the start of the file.

If necessary then you or visitors can change the currently used encoding to Unicode.

  • Firefox > Web Developer > Character Encoding
  • View > Character Encoding