Problems with characters (umlaut)

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tropenland Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 18 February 2006 Status: Offline Points: 11	Post Options Post Reply Quote tropenland Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Problems with characters (umlaut) Posted: 18 February 2006 at 1:06pm
	Hi! I'm using Web Wiz Forums version 7.9 and time after time characters like �,�,�,�,�,... (using German) turn to funny symbols as you can see below (marked red). Can anybody give me an hint how to solve this problem? tropenland

WebWiz-Bruce Members Profile Find Members Posts Admin Group Web Wiz Developer Joined: 03 September 2001 Location: Bournemouth Status: Offline Points: 9844	Post Options Post Reply Quote WebWiz-Bruce Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 February 2006 at 9:35am
	Try changing the browser encoding for the page by setting a browser encoding meta tag in the head of your forum files and set it to use the German locale settings.
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tropenland Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 18 February 2006 Status: Offline Points: 11	Post Options Post Reply Quote tropenland Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 February 2006 at 2:45pm
	Added <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> to the header and it seams to work. Thx

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