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MariePierCharron - Apr 17, 2005 - 11:12 pm

Hi,

Here's my question, and thank you in advance for paying attention to it.

My partner created my website (www.implosions.net) on a PC (with Arachnophilia)... and now that I know a little bit of HTML, I want to be able to work on it from my computer (I have a Mac OS X version 10.2)

The problem is: my website is in french, and when I open the html files (via WebDesign or JEdit for example) the characters with accents get all weird ("é" becomes "È", "à" becomes "‡"...). The same thing happens with other html pages that have french text.

I don't have that problem, thought, with Netscape Composer (because it's web-based I guess)... so I assume the cause of the problem is related to my computer, not to the web pages themselves.

Any idea what I can do?

Thank you SO MUCH for your help.

Marie-Pier Charron

P.S.: good idea, the "check spelling" option... I should add that to my own contact forms!

Pardus - Apr 19, 2005 - 11:22 am

I haven't run across that problem but there are a few things you can check.

I saved a page off the site and when I open it up in Dreamweaver it looks fine. so there may be a default encoding or something else in your preference for your web editing programs. You could also check that your font for viewing HTML code has proper special characters. Try downloading a free trial of BBedit or something



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