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Old March 6th, 2008, 11:33 PM
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Characters not displaying properly?

Hi there, dunno if this is in the right place, but I have a problem with characters not showing up on my website propery.. and I was wondering if anyone knew how to fix this (it show's up fine on the forum, but not the main site - see attachments)

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What is the character encoding of the 2 pages. Is one UTF-8 and the other not?
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now i feel stupid lol i think that was the problem i had two different types

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Don't feel bad. Character encoding is poorly understood by the majority of the very few that understand it at all (including myself). And it is easily and often over-looked as a possible cause of "weird characters showing up". The trick is to find a suitable encoding and be consistant with using it. In your text editors, your pages and feeds, and your database settings.

But don't feel bad if you forget and make a similar mistake again. Now that you've been "once bitten", the next time you see "weird characters" you'll know where to look.

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