Author Topic: Why does this website hate accents? (Read 2545 times)

savethemales · « **on:** May 28, 2012, 12:04:11 AM »

Can the moderator fix this? This website hates accents.

English e works, but not French Ã©.

Matthew · « **Reply #1 on:** May 28, 2012, 12:24:36 AM »

The site has been around for 6 years, but it hasn't been an issue until you brought it up.

Perhaps because English doesn't need accented characters, and this is an English-speaking website.

I'm sure the problem has something to do with the "encoding" of the HTML docuмent that is served up to your (and my) browser. It might even be possible to select a different language in your "Control Panel" -- but I'm not sure. I've never looked into it, and frankly I am not interested enough to look into it at this time.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #2 on:** May 28, 2012, 01:27:41 AM »

I'm able to pull it off somehow...

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Jim · « **Reply #3 on:** May 28, 2012, 06:20:16 AM »

I can use accents too, but perhaps it is because I use Macs (mostly).

Ethelred · « **Reply #4 on:** May 28, 2012, 07:27:35 AM »

The forum works fine with special characters usually:
À à Á á Â â Æ æ Ç ç È è É é Ê ê Ë ë Î î Ï ï Ô ô Œ œ Ù ù Û û Ÿ ÿ » «

You've just to type the correct characters or use ALT+keys depending on your operating system. For Windows these ALT keys are listed here, for example.

P.S. If you copy texts with special characters from other docuмents (PDF etc) then it can happen that the special characters are lost...

P.P.S. Do the German Umlaute work, too? Ä Ö Ü ä ö ü ß § ... yes, very well. :scratchchin:

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It might even be possible to select a different language in your "Control Panel" -- but I'm not sure.

It works well also with Control Panel set to "English". If the poster hits the "preview" button and the special characters are there, it should work well.
Savethemales, do you see correct special characters in the "Edit Post" box?