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[resolved] Charset with French word (8 posts)

  1. daok
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Hello,

    First of all, all post that I made that contain french character are displayed fine. The problem appear only when I have to change thing in the theme. Exemple I have in the footer :

    WordPress th�me dessin� par: WordPress gratuit et Design Contest

    I do not understand why I have those <?> instead of é.

    I have put instead UTF-8 a new charset like ISO-8859-1 but it's not better.

    What should I do?

  2. Chrisber
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Try using the html code for the accented characters. You can find a complete list here.

  3. NC@WP
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Use HTML entities to represent the accented letters. Specifically, to display "é", you can use &eacute;

  4. daok
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Thx guys, the problem is that I do not want to use those accented character everytime. I had 2 websites that was not using WordPress and I was able to simply write content in the Html without having to change every "é", "è" and "à" that are very often in french.

    If WordPress have no other option, I will use your idea of accented letter with the html code but that would be a lot more practical if I could juste write directly.

  5. moshu
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Just make sure you save those edited files with utf-8 encoding - if that's your blog's encoding.
    Even Notepad has such an option to define the character encoding of the edited/saved files.

    99.99% of the similar complaints are due to user negligence in saving files.

  6. daok
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Thank you moshu you find it!

    The theme was saved in ANSI! I do not think it's MY (user) negligence but more of the theme creator...

    Well, thx all :)

  7. moshu
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Hmmm...
    2 quotes:

    The problem appear only when I have to change thing in the theme.

    I do not think it's MY (user) negligence

  8. daok
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Yeah but I haven't create the file. The file type is set in the creation... it's ok dude, you are right if you want ;)

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