the page in question is Apple Amor
You can see that in the footer the spanish vowels seem to be showing properly , but in the slide down bar(header) they get messed up.
Any ideas why ?
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A:
Your page is encoded in ISO-8859-1. Wherever that header comes from, it is most likely encoded in UTF-8.
You would have to change the character set of your page to UTF-8 (that would probably have some consequences) or convert the incoming data from the header. I don't know where it's coming from, so it's hard to tell what the right method would be.
Mandatory basic reading on the issue: The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
Pekka
2010-09-04 23:26:09
Yep, check this out it might help http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset
MikeAinOz
2010-09-04 23:31:55
i just noticed that when the page shows html content such as <div id="spanishblah">asdas</div> .. the characters get messed up. On the other hand if i use jquery innerhtml or php echo they come out finethanks
Pablo
2010-09-04 23:49:42
A:
Your page source shows that you're using:
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
Note that the above tag is not well formed. Where is its closing character "/"? Content-Type should be between double quotes.
Add this tag to your page and test:
<html lang="es">
If that doesn't solve your problem try to change the charset tag to:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
Leniel Macaferi
2010-09-04 23:30:14
But that will break any non-ASCII characters he has on the rest of his page, won't it? He can't just switch to another character set without changing the content. But good points otherwise
Pekka
2010-09-04 23:39:01
tried both .. did not work.. but i just noticed that when the page shows html content such as <div id="spanishblah">asdas</div> .. the characters get messed up.On the other hand if i use jquery innerhtml or php echo they come out fine .
Pablo
2010-09-04 23:48:38