Problems with characters (umlaut)
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Topic: Problems with characters (umlaut)
Posted By: tropenland
Subject: Problems with characters (umlaut)
Date Posted: 18 February 2006 at 1:06pm
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Hi! I'm using http://www.webwizforums.com/ - Web Wiz Forums version 7.9 and time after time characters like ä,ö,ü,ß,°,... (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 
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 20 February 2006 at 9:35am
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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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Posted By: tropenland
Date Posted: 20 February 2006 at 2:45pm
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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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