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Hi and thank you for reading bellow,

I am trying to figure out how to encode on Dreamweaver my French version of my website

My computer crashed down recently and I did reinstall Microsoft XP as well new version of Dreamweaver 8. When I go to my website now they are some hieroglyph on the French version. I tried to change the fonts into French but still problems. I also tried the help of dreamweaver, which I found not helpful at all.

Is anyone that could help on this to give me the instruction I need?

Thank in advance
Oliver

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This thread shows a classic encoding mismatch: files, the HTML declaration and the server sometimes disagree, which produces the garbled French characters saw. resolved it in Dreamweaver; to make the fix robust, verify three things always match: the file is actually saved in the encoding you declare, the HTML declares that encoding early in the head, and the web server sends a matching Content-Type header.

Use a short HTML declaration near the top of the head so browsers pick it up early:

<meta charset="utf-8">

Check the server header from a terminal or use browser devtools. The header should include the charset, for example:

curl -I

If files were edited in a different encoding (Windows-1252/ISO-8859-1), convert them to UTF-8 without a BOM. On Unix-like systems a quick conversion is:

iconv -f WINDOWS-1252 -t UTF-8 infile.html -o outfile.html

Notes and quick tips: remove any UTF-8 BOM if present (some editors add it), confirm any server-side templates or includes are saved with the same encoding, and if a database is involved ensure the connection and columns use UTF-8 (utf8mb4 for full Unicode). For details on meta charset and Content-Type header behavior see the MDN references on the meta charset and the Content-Type header for authoritative guidance.

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I fixed the problem thanks anyway

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Could i know how you have fixed the problem ? It could be very helpful to others to know the solution.

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Sorry not thinking about other I was just thinking that I could be the only one with that problem.

encoding problems

Open each page of dreamweaver click on MODIFY then page propreties, a window appear on the right of this window click on Title/encoding then another window appear click on encoding on your right and choose (unicode) UTF-8 then apply. Close the window and save the page on dreamweaver.

You have to do this on all your pages of your website, it is also usefull if you want to run a sitemape with Google as they ask you to do to be found by their server easier.

Hope this is well explained and helpfull to you

Oliver

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