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HTML - Irish fadas appear as junk characters

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  • 24-03-2007 5:05pm
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    defenstration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 164 ✭✭


    If I try to use Irish fadas in my source code, they appear fine in Notepad, but when I load up the page, they appear as junk. In Internet Options -> General -> Languages, the setting is 'English (Ireland) [en-ie]' so why then doesn't the browser recognise the fadas?


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    #2
    daymobrew
    Registered Users Posts: 6,501 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    Use the HTML entities that represent the characters you want.
    http://www.cookwood.com/html/extras/entities.html#char

    Lowercase i with a fada will be í.


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    #3
    defenstration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 164 ✭✭defenstration


    Cheers man


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    Seán MacSuibhne
    Registered Users Posts: 123 ✭✭Seán MacSuibhne


    defenstration wrote: »
    If I try to use Irish fadas in my source code, they appear fine in Notepad, but when I load up the page, they appear as junk. In Internet Options -> General -> Languages, the setting is 'English (Ireland) [en-ie]' so why then doesn't the browser recognise the fadas?

    You can put ÁÉÍÓÚ áéíóú € in the text if the following is in the header

    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

    or

    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-15">

    depending on which character set you are using.

    That way the webserver knows what characters to send.

    Seán


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