[TYPO3] accented character

Peter Russ peter.russ at 4many.net
Wed Oct 4 14:46:50 CEST 2006


Martin Kutschker schrieb:
> Dmitry Dulepov schrieb: 
>> Hi!
>>
>> Ilaria De Marinis wrote:
>>
>>> I've a problem with accented character such as à,è etc...
>>> So if I use one of these, of course I visualize the page in browser 
>>> with bad character.
>>
>>
>> It means that you character set is wrong (typo3 not configured 
>> correctly).
>>
>>> Is there a control character in typo3 which can work out with a 
>>> correct visualization in the web page?
>>
>>
>> You need to go to install tool and set FE & BE charset to UTF-8.
> 
> Why? You can write Italian with plain ol' iso-8859-1 which is default.
> 
> I guess something else is broken. Perhaps the Webserver defaults to 
> utf-8. At least Firefox ignores the HTML meta tag if a HTTP sets a charset.

As accents are required I would switch charset in BE and FE to iso-8859-15.

Regs. Peter.


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