Posted by Neredbojias on 07/02/40 11:42

With neither quill nor qualm, FunkyJezus quothed:

> Hello group,
>
> Something strange happened to me today...
>
> I made a simple - 10-pages - website. My colleague uploads the site
> (using FileZilla) to an Linux server. When checking the online site, I
> notice that all French characters are screwded up.
>
> I take a look at my local files, and notice that they are in ANSI. (I
> thought I saved them as UTF-8 all the time). But never the less the
> french text is OK on my local files. I save them as UTF-8. We upload
> the files again, and online the site looks just like it should.
>
> BUT then I look again at my local .htm files and Firefox (1.5) can't
> open them any more. The only thing I see is "=EF=BB=BF " on every page.
> Hmmm.... I open the same files in Opera and IE, everything works
> fine...
>
> Just for fun I saved the files back to an ANSI encoding, but now
> offcourse all the french text is srewded up. Even on my local
> files.....
>
> Now, if anyone can tell me where it went wrong, I sure could use some
> help on this one.
>
> maybe this line gives some problems:
> <meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-=
> 1">

You need to get rid of all the "3D"s in that line.

Maybe setting the charset to utf-8 would help, too.

Providing a url would've definitely helped.

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Neredbojias
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