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accent marks in Spanish--diacritics--not displaying correctly

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When I open documents I have created in Spanish, or Spanish language words that appear in largely English language documents, the diacritical marks (accepts, umlats, etc.) all appear with odd symbols, sometimes two or three, like capital letters, etc. instead of the accent mark in a word, such as Simón Bolívar.

When I open documents I have created in Spanish, or Spanish language words that appear in largely English language documents, the diacritical marks (accepts, umlats, etc.) all appear with odd symbols, sometimes two or three, like capital letters, etc. instead of the accent mark in a word, such as Simón Bolívar.

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How does that relate to Firefox? "Documents" are usually created in a word processing program which handles diacritical marks and some punctuation marks differently than a web browser does. Firefox doesn't display files created in word processing programs directly, it would use a "plugin".

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With which encoding as those pages saved and with which encoding are you opening them?

Sounds that they were saved as Unicode and opened as a Western encoding.

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Well, I created the doc in a word authoring program (MS Expression) and opened it in Firefox. However, I think the second person to answer this query nailed it. It has to do with character encoding. thanks for answer anyhow. larry clayton

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Right after I wrote the query I started experimenting with different character encoding. I can get the diacritics to appear normally by selecting unicode. I think Firefox was defaulting to Western. Is there a way to make one a default selection BTW? Other than simply selecting it from the drop down menu?

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You can try to place an UTF-8 Byte Order Mark () at the start on the file.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark

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Is that like an http syntax?