Hello there

I'm having a problem with some characters on my website. I've installed fedora core 2, did some configuration, and it's all working fine.

But now I have some characters, like é or ç or — and all of this characters appears as �

I don't know what's wrong, propably I have to install a font, but I don't know what kind of font or where to find it. Can someone help me please?

I use fedora core 2 and the httpd server.

Don't know if I could help, but in your post the "characters" are displaying as squares in Konqueror, and as some weird, square or rectangle with four things inside it in Firefox - which has font display problems anyway.

I've browsed to your site in Konqueror and Firefox, and though I can't read your language, nothing looks amiss. Could you be more specific about which page, and where the strange characters appear? Perhaps it would help if you state which browser you're using, and which character encoding.

hey, thx for the reply! It's not the website at http://www.brandweerstabroek.be/ but on my Linux box at home. I use this at home for testing. For example: http://www.brandweerstabroek.be/korps.php you see the ç and the é . At the website it's correct, but at home it's the � sign.

I don't know what I have to install. At the www.brandweerstabroek.be website, it's also a linux box, so I want to figure out how they do this...

I use mozilla and Internet Explorer, and they are both the same for my computer at home. I use the <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> charset.


Thanks in advance!

Well, it must be displaying incorrectly here, also. I read "at double quote marks korps double quote marks at the left, you see the square and the square. At the website it's correct, but at home it's the square sign." Maybe it's because I have GB 2312 as my encoding. I'll change it and see what happens.

At least now I'm on the same page with you. I replied before you edited your post, and now with my encoding set to iso 8859-1 I see those characters, which look like an e with an apostrophe on top of it, and a c with a comma below it, a hyphen, and a square.

I can tell you this. A man from Jette, Brussels Hoofstedelijk Gewest who was helping me with Debian last year told me that I was obligated to use iso 8859-15 because it was the default for Europeans. Maybe that will help. Otherwise, I'm clueless. I can tell you that character encoding in Firefox doesn't seem to work, but if you change encoding in Konqueror there are differences.

Sorry, I was a littlebit to quick to push the "reply" button

I put it in the headers, the charset. But I WAS a littlebit confused (yes I fixed it ):
I put the charset in the headers, so as I suppose the browser (IE, Mozilla or Kon) would take the correct charset...

But as you gave me a hint, I took a look in the httpd-config file. I set the charset as the default:
and now it is fixed. Big thx Chinaman for the necessary tips!!!