Accents in Page Name problem

Squiz Matrix Support
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hi everyone,


I have this problems for months! :frowning:



When users include accented characters in the Page Name field this characters appear like "?".



For example, y tired the following page name: mamá_papá

and appear like "mam?_pap?"



The problem appear when i need to call this page names (and short page names) in the page.



the codification are in western iso, we dont have this problem in the contents of the pages, only in the page names.



please help :slight_smile:



pd:sorry my bad english.- :stuck_out_tongue:

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nobody?

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Pretty sure that you need to be using UTF-8 in order to get those special characters to look ok. Although, changing your charset after you built your content is difficult.

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Hi. Thanks for answer.
yeah utf-8 is a possible solution, but, the problem is wen we change the charsert to utf-8 and try to write page names whit accents the problem persist.



the ssame problem. example: mamá = mam?



I don't understand whats the problem… :frowning:

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[quote]
Hi. Thanks for answer.

yeah utf-8 is a possible solution, but, the problem is wen we change the charsert to utf-8 and try to write page names whit accents the problem persist.



the ssame problem. example: mamá = mam?



I don’t understand whats the problem… :frowning:

[/quote]



If you see question marks it usually means that the page is displayed with UTF-8 encoding BUT you have characters from the Window-1252 character set mixed in there.



Try it out on this page. The encoding is 1252, but if you force the browser to UTF-8 you’ll see question marks all down the page.



If you cut and paste from many Microsoft apps (like word), into UTF-8 apps, then this is the likely outcome.



You can test this by getting an editor that supports UTF-8, generating the extended character, and using that and observing what happens.





cheers,



Richard