weird chars on my page

PeterDK · January 31, 2014

Why is my french page littered with weird characters?

The dutch version doesn't have this

I'm using Hanna code to produce that section...

Martijn Geerts · January 31, 2014

Download TextWrangler or BBEdit and 'zap gremlins'.

Be sure your files are saved in UTF-8

PeterDK · January 31, 2014

I'm not putting the weird characters in myself, just can't open an editor and edit the file that is misbehaving...

It's Hanna code that does the output, see

There are two lines outputting the month of the year in full name fasion 'December'. In french they have accents, and those are misbehaving.

$output .= strftime("%d %B %Y",$verhuurprijs->startdatum);

Could you (gently) move me in the right direction?

Thanks so far Martijn!

Martijn Geerts · January 31, 2014

It has to do with charactersets. Those question marks tells that the characters are not mapped (anymore).

This can happen when there was a change in how the charactersets were saved.

Soma · January 31, 2014

U need to set locale to utf8 like fr_FR.utf8

PeterDK · February 1, 2014

Thank you very much, exactly what I was looking for!

Martijn Geerts · February 1, 2014

You should use utf-8 everywhere always.

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