[TYPO3] Characters not in iso 8859-1

Thu May 24 16:04:49 CEST 2007

Ries van Twisk wrote:
>> I have a problem with displaying special chars in content elements.  
>> [...]
>> 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" />
>> [...]
> 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?
>   
In fact I did not. How can I do this? What's the consequence of not
having done it first? How can I fix that?
> also, are you mentioning above that you have two meta charset headers?
>   
That's correct. Strikes me as odd myself...