1 Topic by Neko

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Topic: Problem with accented "a"

Hello,

I upgraded my PunBB to its latest release (1.2.4) but still got a weird bug when typing à (that's accented "a"). On my forums it gets displayed as a question mark.

Has anyone encountered the same problem? How did you solve it?

Could it be caused by mods? I installed the Textile plug-in long ago, but now I removed it and the only option is BBCode.

Thanks,

Neko

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Re: Problem with accented "a"

Try creating a .htaccess with the following in your forum root:

AddDefaultCharset iso-8859-1

If that doesn't help, try putting it in your web root.

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3 Reply by Neko

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Re: Problem with accented "a"

Rickard,

thanks for the tip. Unfortunately it didn't work in both cases.

I noticed that the Textdrive forum suffers from the same problem. Do you think it would be a server issue?

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Re: Problem with accented "a"

Try this then. Open up header.php and add the following after the other calls to header():

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1');

The problem is that UTF-8 is set as the default character set on TextDrive. You have to force it to iso-8859-1 in order for things to work properly.

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Re: Problem with accented "a"

It worked! Thanks a lot. smile