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07-May-2008, 11:37 AM #1
Charset Issues
Ive been working on a site for some Brasilian friends of mine, first non-english site ive made.

Im getting error codes instead of letters for some reason, they resemble tiny question marks. Its only accented letters that get this error. Here is a picture of what i mean:



This is how is should look:
A Banda Impacto Urbano teve seu inicio em fevereiro de 2004, com a seguinte formação: Almir, Marco, Nicolas e Yani.
Após 3 meses, a Banda têm mais um integrante, o vocalista Roberto
Como influência podemos citar Guns and Roses, CCR, Roupa Nova, Capital INicial, Legião Urbana,Skid Row entre outros. O estilo da Banda Impacto Urbano é uma mescla do Pop Rock e o Hard Rock, gerando algo novo, surpreendente. (ect...)

this is what i have listed in my index page at the top:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<LINK HREF="style.css" TYPE="text/css" REL="stylesheet">

I am using CSS this time, kinda new to it. What could be causing this and better yet, could anyone tell me how to fix it? Thank you for reading
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07-May-2008, 11:47 AM #2
I don't know how to fix this using CSS or a different charset but you could try using HTML codes for the accented characters. Maybe that would work in the interim.

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07-May-2008, 11:50 AM #3
Yeah, i didnt think of the codes like that.. the only issue is that its a failry large site with alot of content. i know alot of people use style sheets, arent those characters part of the standard UTF-8 charset?

Thank you
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09-May-2008, 03:02 AM #4
here is the site if it helps

www.musicamor.com/iu/index-1.htm
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09-May-2008, 06:58 AM #5
CSS is for layout, not for characters.

How do you create your webpages btw?
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09-May-2008, 10:26 AM #6
Here are some links you can read that will hopefully help:

http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset
http://annevankesteren.nl/2004/06/utf-8
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/5037.htm

Other than that, I've got no idea.

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20-May-2008, 05:48 AM #7
Well i figured it out. The problem was that i had the charset set to UTF-8...

UTF-8 is supposed to cover like everything, but i guess it doesnt include Latin Characters.
I simply replaced UTF-8 with ISO-8859-1. Its all good.


<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/cssl; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">


Thanks anyway for all the replies
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20-May-2008, 11:31 AM #8
Interesting. Thanks for the update!

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