IE spanish characters

[fuzzysystems]

Hey,

I know it doesn't make sense to post this here, but this is the best place I could find.
Spanish characters won't render in IE on my website. I'm pretty sure it's a problem with my encoding. I've tried UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 but neither work. Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[mattura]

How are you setting your encoding? In php headers? In HTML meta tags? Are you sure they are not contradicting each other?
Are you getting the text from an SQL databse (did you set the encoding there)?
UTF-8 should give you everything you need.

It's also possible your text/html editor saves a specific encoding (which might be windows-1252) so try that.

 

[fuzzysystems]

I set the encoding in html like so:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

and I edit all my html code in scite, so I don't think it's my text editor.

It works perfectly in firefox/safari, just not in IE.

 

[xPlozion]

here's a silly question. although i don't use intenet explorer, not have ever recently, and i can't use it even if i wanted to (linux ), doesn't internet explorer have an override for encoding? have you checked that? i don't know if it overrides the encoding on the website, but it could be worth a try. also, idk if it has anything to do with it, but is your page saved as utf-8 as well?

-xP

 

[Scoochi2]

Just out of curiosity, does your source output the character entity or the character itself?
I highly recommend using entities!

For example, use &eacute; instead of é

 

[fuzzysystems]

xPlozion-- I don't know about overriding the encoding, interesting idea though. I'll check it.

Scoochi2-- I'm not using entites, but I bet that'll fix it. Thanks!