Reputation: 4182

Can't display special characters HTML

I have a problem recently I can't seem to be able to display special french characters like é.

This is my settings of my page :

<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> 
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen"/>

I tried UTF-8 too and doesn't seem to work either.

I tried also using é and nothing.

Can someone help me ?

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Upvotes: 1

Answers (3)

asolovyov

Reputation: 963

You can manually replace characters by its HTML entities or using a HTML escape tool.

Upvotes: 5

Damien Overeem

Reputation: 4529

This should be a valid french html document (According to web standards) . You did the right thing by choosing the iso-8859-1 character encoding, just at the wrong place.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">

    <head>
    <title>Example de document XHTML 1.0</title>
    </head>

    <body>
    <h1>Portrait IntÃ©rieur</h1>
    <h2>Rainer-Maria Rilke</h2>
    <p>Ce ne sont pas des souvenirs<br />
    qui, en moi, t'entretiennent ;<br />
    tu n'es pas non plus mienne<br />
    par la force d'un beau dÃ©sir.</p>
    </body>
    </html>

Upvotes: 0

Dineshkani

Reputation: 3005

You can use html character entity for that.

Reference

Upvotes: 1

Can&#39;t display special characters HTML

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