accented characters

[dstonek]

I am using an old (w/o support) php based group of scripts to manage a web forum.
All Spanish characters like á é ñ are substituded by "?"
Is there an obvious thing I have to add, change or have in mind with such kind of characters?
Thank you in advance.

[timj]

It's not very clear what you're trying to do, but if you are trying to use special characters in a browser, you must print these characters in their appropriate HTML equivalent.
e.g. to get a German u with an umlaut, print the html code
ü or something.

See the following site for more info on HTML code for special (Latin) characters:
HTML entities
Check out the link to "Latin entities".

For your Spanish (I assume it's supposed to be upside down) question mark, use the code
¿
(which stands for "inverted question mark" or something).

[dstonek]

Thank you very much for answering.

The problem is when a user fills the text box using latin characters like "ñ". They are displayed as they are but when submiting the post they are substituted by question marks.
All scripts of this forum are php.
I want to know what does control those character displays.
In this forum there are no problems with these chars. from my computer.
I´ve made some tests in my forum.
I put & ntilde; to get a ñ and this is what I get when posting the test.
If I edit the message there still is the ñ. But when saving again a "?" comes in substitution.
I like this prg (ITAforum) because I can make color and text changes easily but this char. problem is very unlikeable so I will be glad to hear anyone suggestion for a better one.

[dstonek]

charset=iso-8859-1

[ivory]

Sounds like it is time to dive in your adopted third party product to see where the code receives the user input, and where it scans for and replaces weird characters.
Then replace that with something along the lines of

$newstr=str_replace(
 array("ë","é","ê","è"),
 array("ë","é","ê","è"),
 $oldstr
);

etc. for other letters (Don't forget Çåpitãls). Probably not the most elegant way.

[dstonek]

Thanks Ivory. I´ve changed all php references of charset to latin 8859-1 and it is working perfectly.
Thank you all.