RE: [PHP] FRench characters not displayed correctly

-----Original Message----- From: Angelo Zanetti [mailto:angelo@elemental.co.za] Sent: 17 April 2008 09:48 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] FRench characters not displayed correctly Hi all. We have taken over a site and a problem we have is that French special characters aren't displaying correctly, they are displaying a weird square block. I have checked the content type and it's as follows: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" > I also notice that the "charset=iso-8859-1" is missing in the above meta tag, could this be affecting the characters? I have seen that there is no DOCTYPE declaration, could this be the problem if this is omitted? If you have any suggestions, please let me know. TIA. Angelo Web: http://www.elemental.co.za ======================================== I have also found that we can do this: <html lang="fr"> But I am interested in finding out if the doctype declaration is a contributing factor. Thanks Angelo