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Azeem
Azeem

Reputation: 2924

Spanish characters are not displayed by browser

I need to support Spanish language for a website which I am developing. I have created an XML file which contains the english text and corresponding Spanish text. I am reading this XML file on user's choice (language dropbox). Everything is working fine unless there are some spanish characters which browser is not able to display properly.

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The content of XML file is:

<Spanish>
    <title></title>
    <loginBoxHeader1>Login Panel -</loginBoxHeader1>
    <loginBoxHeader2>Por favor, proporcione las credenciales siguientes!</loginBoxHeader2>
    <username>Nombre de Usuario:</username>
    <password>Contraseña:</password>
    <LoginBtn>iniciar la sesión</LoginBtn>
    <RememberCheckbox>Recordar mi usuario en este equipo</RememberCheckbox>
</Spanish>

characters ñ and ó are not visible in browser. I set encoding of XML file to ISO-8859-1. Also I added following meta tag in HTML page:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO 8859-1">

I also tried with UTF-8 encoding but problem persists. Any thoughts?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6398

Answers (4)

Jisha
Jisha

Reputation: 65

As @pawlakppp mentioned, have you checked the Encoding of your xml file. Try this -

  • Open the XML file in an editor like NOTEPAD++.
  • Go to 'Encoding' Menu
  • Click on 'Encofing with UTF-8' or 'Encoding with UTF-8 without BOM'.

Upvotes: 0

Chim
Chim

Reputation: 11

have you tried google fonts? http://www.google.com/fonts Click on "New to Google Fonts?" and follow the steps. I picked 1, just "Normal 400", followed the steps. I had the same problem, my spanish characters would show up as black diamonds with question marks on them.

Upvotes: 1

el vis
el vis

Reputation: 1302

Your page is decoded with utf-8 (but should in iso...), the reason can be:

  • page file itself is utf-8 encoded (in that case meta tags are ignored)
  • www server content-type header is utf-8 (and should be changed to iso...)

Or go other way and save xml in utf-8 using for example notepad++

Upvotes: 0

Adam Brown
Adam Brown

Reputation: 2870

Maybe the fonttype doesn't support the special characters? I have had the same problem before and it was just becuase the font didn't have the symbols in it. Changed the font and problem solved.

Upvotes: 0

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