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  • Paul Y
    #1

    HTML Spanish language characters not appearing

    Hi. I am attempting to display some Spanish text on my web site using
    HTML. However, the Spanish characters, such as the 'N' in Espana are
    not being displayed correctly. The text in the HTML source is fine,
    it's just when I view the site using my browser I get the problem. I
    am using an IE:Mac running Mac OS X. I have used the HTML tag <p
    lang="es"> for the relevant paragraph as the rest of the site is in
    English. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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    • Andreas Prilop
      #2
      Re: HTML Spanish language characters not appearing

      contactus@easy. com (Paul Y) wrote:
      [color=blue]
      > However, the Spanish characters, such as the 'N' in Espana are
      > not being displayed correctly. The text in the HTML source is fine,
      > it's just when I view the site using my browser I get the problem. I
      > am using an IE:Mac running Mac OS X.[/color]

      Reinstall the "Text Encoding Converter" (a known problem with IE).
      Better yet, get a web browser: iCab, Mozilla, Netscape, Safari ...

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        • Alan J. Flavell
          #3
          Re: HTML Spanish language characters not appearing

          On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Paul Y wrote:
          [color=blue]
          > Hi. I am attempting to display some Spanish text on my web site using
          > HTML. However, the Spanish characters, such as the 'N' in Espana are
          > not being displayed correctly.[/color]

          URL? And why aren't you telling us what _is_ displayed?
          [color=blue]
          > The text in the HTML source is fine,[/color]

          If you're so sure about that, why are you asking an HTML authoring
          group? Sounds as if you might have a browser problem. On the other
          hand, it might be that your source isn't as "fine" as you suppose it
          to be.
          [color=blue]
          > it's just when I view the site using my browser I get the problem.[/color]

          What about anyone else's browser, hmmm?
          [color=blue]
          > I have used the HTML tag <p
          > lang="es"> for the relevant paragraph[/color]

          This could be important e.g for speaking machines, but has no
          relevance to your present problem.
          [color=blue]
          > Any help would be greatly appreciated.[/color]

          You need to play your own part in this equation if you hope to get
          useful help. Put a test online, tell us its URL, explain to us in
          more detail what you're doing (which of the three different HTML ways
          you're using to represent these characters), tell us in more detail
          what you are perceiving to be wrong ("not displayed correctly" isn't
          very informative, is it?).

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            • Henri Sivonen
              #4
              Re: HTML Spanish language characters not appearing

              In article <30092003223505 6303%nhtcapri@r rzn-user.uni-hannover.de>,
              Andreas Prilop <nhtcapri@rrz n-user.uni-hannover.de> wrote:
              [color=blue]
              > contactus@easy. com (Paul Y) wrote:
              >[color=green]
              > > However, the Spanish characters, such as the 'N' in Espana are
              > > not being displayed correctly. The text in the HTML source is fine,[/color][/color]

              Your source may be MacRoman-encoded if it looks "fine" in BBEdit Lite or
              some other text editor that has roots in the legacy Mac OS. Sending
              MacRoman-encoded content to a Web browser is generally a bad idea.
              [Properly declared] ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 are preferrable on the Web
              network.
              [color=blue][color=green]
              > > it's just when I view the site using my browser I get the problem. I
              > > am using an IE:Mac running Mac OS X.[/color]
              >
              > Reinstall the "Text Encoding Converter" (a known problem with IE).[/color]

              Is that really relevant on OS X? How does one reinstall TEC on OS X? (I
              thought the TEC API had been rolled into some larger lump of legacy
              Carbon stuff.)

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                • Andreas Prilop
                  #5
                  Re: HTML Spanish language characters not appearing

                  Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.f i> wrote:
                  [color=blue][color=green]
                  >> Reinstall the "Text Encoding Converter" (a known problem with IE).[/color]
                  >
                  > Is that really relevant on OS X? How does one reinstall TEC on OS X? (I
                  > thought the TEC API had been rolled into some larger lump of legacy
                  > Carbon stuff.)[/color]

                  I don't use Internet Explorer on Macintosh - so I don't know first-hand.
                  :-) But this question about incorrectly-shown Latin-1 characters
                  pops up regularly in news:microsoft. public.mac.expl orer . The standard
                  procedure that fixes this is to reinstall the Text Encoding Converter.

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