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Frankenrhythm
05-25-2006, 02:23 PM
I'm having difficulty with the rendering of some special characters, notably è and é and ê. I've tried setting the charset to be used to both iso-8859-1 and utf-8, but neither one is working correctly. The strange thing is that when I check the source of the page, the characters are also incorrect there.

The data containing these characters is being grabbed from a database and presented by Tomcat through either JSP files or XSL templates. The characers are fine in the database, and generated external JS files show the characters fine as well.

I know it's possible to show these characters, as I'm looking at them being used on another site right now. I'm starting to think it might be a server setting problem... So, two questions:

A) Would this be the right forum to ask about this, and
B) Where should I be looking to make a change to settings to remedy this problem?

Thanks.

Robert Wellock
05-26-2006, 09:26 AM
The Server HTTP headers and the database itself are you storing them as "numeric character references"?