I think your page is presented as iso-8859-1 but in the latest version of WordPress, the default charset is UTF-8. Also, the page is not valid so I wonder how it can identify the content as iso-8859-1…
You’ve lost me.. presented..? Anyway, how do I change it? and how do I make the page valid? (if that is what i have to do)
Check Options-Reading, and if it’s not there, put UTF-8 in this box:
Encoding for pages and feeds:
I did that, but no change: http://www.oppenbok.com/blog/index.php
And how do I make my page “valid” as you wrote in your first answer. Thank you so much for all help, really appreciate it!
You may need to change viewing options in your browser from automatic to UTF-8. I did that with IE 6 and I was able to see the diacritic signs on your site.
Well, thank you SO much. In my browser it does not work, but it’s fine by me if others see it correctly. Thanks for all help! /Johanna
Anonymous
But why not simply tell WordPress to use iso-8859-1?
When I upgraded to 1.2, my links with non-ascii characters were messed up …
And while new links and posts work correctly with UTF-8, the characters in the email notifications are messed up.
With iso-8859-1, email and posts all work. What’s the argument for UTF-8?
If you really don’t want to use utf-8 (why?), please only use ISO-8859-1 if you are absolutely certain no euro-zone European will ever leave a comment on your page referring to a price in their home country.
The standard is ISO-8859-15 for “Western” encodings. And if you can’t see this euro sign –> € <– something’s wrong with your browser settings (the charset of this page should be utf-8).
Anonymous
I don’t like to use UTF-8 because:
1) It messed up some of my links when upgrading from 1.0 to 1.2
2) When I receive email notifications of blog comments, non-ASCII characters are garbled.
What I don’t get is that € does work with 8859-1 – it’s not supposed to work?
http://jesperjuul.dk/ludologist/index.php?p=102#comments
No. 8859-1 is pre-euro. The € sign is the major reason for 8859-15 — they are nearly identical.
But I agree, the garbled characters in email notifications are a nuisance. Any chance that is going to be fixed????
