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Gaelic Text

Hi All

My client is experiencing a problem on her Perch site when entering gaelic text.

She typed the following into Perch: gaelic text typed into Perch

And gets this on the live site: What appears live on the site

I'm not sure what to do to fix this. Can you advise? I use the CKEditor for all the templates on the website.

Thanks

Evie

Evie Milo

Evie Milo 0 points

  • 7 years ago
Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew 394 points
Perch Support

Are you serving your pages as UTF-8? You need to be doing that otherwise you will get strange characters.

I went into the template, checked the page properties, made sure that the encoding was set to UTF-8 and resaved and re-uploaded. The client tested again and got the same results.

Dreamweaver is a bit odd though as whenever you check the page properties of anything it defaults to Western European and uyou have to check this everytime you open a document and resave it.

Do I have to change the information in my meta then? I'm not using HTML5 for this site and at the moment dreamweaver has this in the meta:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

is this what I need to change sitewide?

Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew 394 points
Perch Support

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

You can check in your browser to see what the page is being served as.

I presume my pages are not getting served as UTF-8 if I have this in my meta:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

So I guess I need to change this to be:

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

On every page of the website - will this affect anything else?

Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew 394 points
Perch Support

That's correct, and no it shouldn't cause any other problems.

super - will do that after lunch. ta