[TYPO3] Characters not in iso 8859-1

Thu May 24 17:42:53 CEST 2007

Rob De Vries wrote:
>>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>>>> <!DOCTYPE html
>>>>     PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
>>>>     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
>>>> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
>>>> <head>
>>>>    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;  
>>>> charset=utf-8" />
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;  
>>>> charset=iso-8859-1" />
>>>>         
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> If I look at your header, First thing is see is the xml prolog, do you 
> think is usefull for your website? 
>   
I don't think it is, but I don't know how to turn it off either. The
DOCTYPE is defined in the template, but removing it did not get rid of
the prolog. Any hints?
> Second:
> the first meta about your characters gets overwritten by your second one 
> (the iso)
> One reason for this is that you forgot to strip this when using a 
> template parser and still placing on in your 'head'.
>   
You are right about this, but regrettably this didn't solve my problem.
The HTML header now correctly contains the line

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

only once, but my special chars still show up as "?".

Is there anything else to try? I fear even if I solve this, the next
problem will be flexible content elements anyway, because they are
stored in the field tx_templavoila_flex of tt_content as XML defined as

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" standalone="yes" ?>