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Firefox, Spanish characters!

Can anybody help me? I'm working on a project and when I'm viewing my work in Firefox (and other existing sites with Spanish characters) I'm not able to view the fonts properly. eg: ingl?s, espa?ol
Safari works perfect, no problems what so ever. It's weird, but I have used FF as my default browser for years and didn't have problems until returning from my last trip to Colombia. I don't recall changing any settings or preferences though while I was down there.

Any help or insight would be appreciated please and thanks. I'm on a MAC too.

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By babygirl on Sep 21, 2009, 12:09 in Friendly Talkzone.

babygirl says on Sep 21, 2009, 12:21:

I did thanks and that looks quite soft and comfy I must say haha.

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johnny2009 says on Sep 21, 2009, 12:24:

Yes it depends on the character encoding and the default language of your browser.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encodings_in_HTML

If the projects you are working on is the web page and you need to change the character encoding then it may well fuck absolutely everything up.

My encoding is Unicode (UTF-8) with spanish characters and it seems to render just fine in all browsers regardless of the language

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babygirl says on Sep 21, 2009, 12:44:

cool cool, now my stuff when previewed in FF is perfect. I cut and pasted placeholder from another site (that I'm updating) and it's got to be his coding that was making it wonky, but when I type in my own copy, I'm cool. I'm really new to web based projects, so I'm learning as I go along.
johnny: you're a web guy?

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Miguel_Clavo says on Sep 21, 2009, 12:49:

the cat looks dead........morbid.

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tannedincali (☼Travelguide writer) says on Sep 21, 2009, 17:40:

You can tell the browser which encoding your page uses by setting this meta tag:

Otherwise the browser will use the default web server encoding ( when the page is already published) or it can be forced to use some enconding by default or just guess it, that is maybe the case with your Safari.

Most of the time pages are saved in either iso-8858-1 or UTF-8. You can check which encoding works for a page by selecting it from the menu:

View -> character encoding ->

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tannedincali (☼Travelguide writer) says on Sep 21, 2009, 17:45:

Sorry, the tag was processed by the browser:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

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babygirl says on Sep 21, 2009, 18:33:

Thanks so much tann.

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johnny2009 says on Sep 21, 2009, 18:40:

no babygirl, I am not a web guy, i have just had the same head spankinly annoying problem myself before

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babygirl says on Sep 21, 2009, 20:55:

Johnny... if you were it would be better to lie at this point anyway, I'm irritating the HELL out of my friends as I'm self teaching ;) I'm a print not web girl normally hahaa.

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