Odd problem with accented characters...

[jimr451]

Hi all,

I have a strange problem with accented characters. In Firefox, the pages are fine, but in IE, here's what I'm seeing:

On this page:

http://lecturesdefrance.com/shop42/

Notice the first product there "Allo Koklino" - the accented "o" in Allo shows as a box (for me anyway).

However, if you click the link, to the product page, the title shows just fine.

I've looked at the encoding, css, etc. to no avail. Does anyone have an idea what's going on here? I'm using IE 7.

Thanks,

-Jim

[neprancis]

You may replace this character with it's code. See ASCII codes here - http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm

[jimr451]

Yes, that's a possibility, but since it's on a bunch of products, I wanted to see if there was a simple solution. Also the client will be updating products, so she'd have to keep a reference for all the special characters.

Since this problem doesn't exist on the current site, I'd like to find out what's causing this issue, rather than work around it.

-jim

[opifex]

start by defining the character set in the head.... in all sections including the admin control panel. then verify that the db will accept special chars.. if not change the charset for the db, then make sure that your admin front end is sending the special characters.
This is a problem often encountered with various commercial "turnkey" program packages.