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Hi,

I have a personal site (www.excel-exercice.com) but I have a big pb
with the special characters like é à (espacially in french)
I have write in my header <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" lang="fr"> but it doesn't
work.
You can see the pb by visiting the site and change the language (by
clicking on the flag)

How could give me an explanation ?

Thx

On 2007-10-11, Tschuß <> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a personal site (www.excel-exercice.com) but I have a big pb
> with the special characters like é à (espacially in french)
> I have write in my header <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
> content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" lang="fr"> but it doesn't
> work.

I doubt that the lang attribute on a meta element does anything (since
it has no content, and isn't rendered). But never mind, that's not the
main problem here.

> You can see the pb by visiting the site and change the language (by
> clicking on the flag)
>
> How could give me an explanation ?

It's because the server is delivering those pages with this header:

Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

The server header trumps the meta element.

Your text does appear to be encoded in ISO-8859-1, not UTF-8.

So, two solutions: either change the server to put charset=ISO-8859-1 in
the header instead, or transcode your pages so they are UTF-8 (and
change or delete the meta elements-- it will still work if you don't,
but will cause confusion in future to anyone reading the source).