September 4, 200917 yr Hay people i have a problem with a website im working on. Its written in German and on one page one of the German characters has come up as a daimond with a question mark inside of it. I find this strange as another page has all the German characters showing as they should. Can someone please help? Here is the link to the page with the problem http://www.aleonic.at/Pages/Entstehung.html and the link to the page that is working fine http://www.aleonic.at/Pages/Bestellung.html help!
September 5, 200917 yr Hi, What was the original character/symbol meant to be? It's possible that it wasn't encoded properly in HTML and that is producing the error. For example, £ should be written £ and so on. If you have a special character there, you may need to use the ASCII code instead. Hope this helps Darren
September 5, 200917 yr Author Hi thanks for the response the character is a ü. what i really do not understand is why only this page is affected and not the others where both ü,ö and ä are written. Ill have another look and compare the code and like you said i may need to enter the ASCII code in there.
September 5, 200917 yr Make sure you have the right charset declared in the <head></head> area of the page. <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> Is an example and actually should work fine, I have a feeling the oomlout (*spelling) is under this charset also.
September 6, 200917 yr Author thankx for you help people but it seams that i have found a fix to the problem by entering this <span lang="de-at">ü</span> into the word where i need the character and it has worked. Still can not under stand why i needed to do this for one page when the others work fine. mmm thanks anyway.
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