[TYPO3] Characters not in iso 8859-1

Thu May 24 14:40:11 CEST 2007

> Hello,
>
> I have a problem with displaying special chars in content elements.  
> For
> instance, the German double quotes ("„“", I hope these show up in your
> mail reader correctly) show up as question marks ("?") in the front  
> end.
> They are displayed correctly in the RTE and are stored correctly in
> tt_content.
>
> I think I can rule out the charset of the DB as culprit (it is  
> currently
> latin1_swedish_ci, which contains the German quotes - I have tried  
> utf-8
> as well). The HTML header output by Typo3 contains the lines
>
> <?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" />
>
>
> The second "Content-Type" line looks suspicious. Nonetheless, the HTML
> generated by Typo3 already contains the bungled chars as "?". German
> umlauts are displayed correctly though, by the way.
>
> Which setting have I got wrong? It must be possible for Typo3 to  
> display
> characters not in iso 8859-1, isn't it?
>
>

You can set your site to utf-8 and I hope you did that upfront since  
you properly
knew that some characters where not found in latin1?

also, are you mentioning above that you have two meta charset headers?

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