On 22 Aug 2007 06:29:48 -0400
Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm not sure when this problem came up, but perhaps when I upgraded to
> etch. Put simply, my browsers no longer can display accented
> characters. 
> 
> For example, I create a little test file with a and u umlaut and e
> ecute: 
> 
>   This is a test
>   ä ü é
> 
> Xterm can display them, but in galeon and iceweasal they are broken: 
> 
>   This is a test
>   ä ü é
> 
> I try to use the browser defaults, and the default for both browsers
> is "serif". I'm not sure what my system interprets that as (Times New
> Roman?), but I'd assume it is with a font that supports normal
> accented characters. 
> 

The charset you specify in the header (or the meta tag) must match that
of the file saved in. The problem looks like you saved your file in
UTF-8 (your system default?), and try to display it as ISO-8859-x.
Either save the file using the ISO encoding, or set the header to UTF-8.

-- 
Szia:
                Nyizsa.

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