problem with contact form

[paldo]

Sometimes I get message with strange letters:

"éffectué pour ce 24 mars, tu as été génial, comme toujours.
Bisous bisous,
bonne journée à bientôt"

The message is written in french.

é should be" é "
ô should be " ô "

How to avoid it?

[bpat1434]

Sounds like you have an encoding issue. Text is input under one enoding and displayed in another (and possibly even saved in a third different one).

I'd double check the charset of the database and the characterset of the page.

[johanafm]

It seems to me as if you are using utf-8 encoding (good) but displaying the page as if you were using iso-8859-1. You probably only need to add a content type header before any ouput

<?
# the blank line before the opening php tag <? will cause problems, since a blank line is also output.

# this will tell most browsers that the page is using utf-8 character encoding
header('content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

and in the head element of your html code, you will for some browsers also need

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

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

[paldo]

Dear johanafm, You are right, I had the following coding:

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

Thank you very much for your help, you made my day!