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Special chars don't display correctly...

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Dominik Pich

Wednesday 31 March 2004 12:54:50 am

ä ö ü ß - german special chars dont display propertly.

Should I change the internal charset?
OR/AND
modify the text2xml class I use to import text?

Thank you,
Dominik

John Mina

Wednesday 31 March 2004 5:49:30 am

Hi
i was having the probl;em with the arabic characters i changed the charset , for the arabic letters coming from the db there were no problem but for those i write as labeles i nthe tpl , it was showing ???, until i changed the characters to html code, for example letter

أ in browser
is "أ" in code
whenever i write the arabic letter, it translate itself into code here anyway hope u got my point
hope that hints help anything
good luck

Dominik Pich

Monday 05 April 2004 5:36:56 am

I tried changing the charset in the pagelayout.tpl but chars from the db are not converted.

e.g. ä is NOT becoming ä