Issue with "special" characters (accented letters)?

**namo** · 2024-04-04, 04:04 PM (ISO 8601)

When I try to post accented letters, they get all wonkey : Ãƒ* ÃƒÂ© ÃƒÂ¶ ÃƒÂ¹ (edit: these were French accented letters, if it matters)
(A character set issue? ISO vs UTF-8 or something like that?)

I don't have this issue on any other site.

**OracleofWuffing** · 2024-04-04, 08:51 PM (ISO 8601)

Looks like the forum software uses iso-8859-1 for its character set encoding. Are the corresponding characters listed on that page? If so, try copying and pasting from that page over to here and see if they still jumble up.

If the characters aren't listed on that page, then... It's probably something Rawhide and The Giant would have to weigh the pros and cons of making a sweeping change to the board settings.

**namo** · 2024-04-05, 03:39 AM (ISO 8601)

Test with copy-pasting accented letters: Ã* Ã©
(firefox)

Test with Chrome (from keyboard): à é

edit: looks like Chrome & Firefox work differently. Googling it, it seems Chrome has a character set autodetection; maybe Firefox doesn't or it works differently...

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