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Why can't Firefox 7 can'handle French characters?

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I upgraded to Firefox 7 today, and it can't handle French accented characters; I haven't had this problem with earlier versions of Firefox when viewing the same website.

I'm using Windows XP SP3 on a Toshiba laptop.

The website works fine in Internet Exploder; it's never a good sign when something works better in IE.

Is this glitch due to something in the upgrade?

I upgraded to Firefox 7 today, and it can't handle French accented characters; I haven't had this problem with earlier versions of Firefox when viewing the same website. I'm using Windows XP SP3 on a Toshiba laptop. The website works fine in Internet Exploder; it's never a good sign when something works better in IE. Is this glitch due to something in the upgrade?

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Make sure that you have selected the correct Western (ISO-8859-1) encoding.

  • Firefox > Web Developer > Character Encoding
  • View > Character Encoding
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The web server is probably using the wrong encoding. Do you have a particular URL I can test? My French web sites look OK in Firefox 7.

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The problem has somehow resolved itself.

I checked my encoding, and it was set properly. I checked the website in Internet Exploder, and it was working yesterday where Firefox was not. Today, Firefox has no trouble with the same webpage.

Thanks anyway.

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If it happens again then reload the web page(s) and bypass the cache.

  • Press and hold Shift and left-click the Reload button.
  • Press "Ctrl + F5" or press "Ctrl + Shift + R" (Windows,Linux)
  • Press "Cmd + Shift + R" (MAC)

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