Display special Characters problem

[geroid]

Can anyone help me with this problem. I'm trying to include the irish language on my webpage which has special characters like

á ú ó

If I write the page with these characters they are not understood by the browser (IE or Firefox) and appear as junk characters. I know that I can include code like

 

Glór Cheatharlach

 

and this will appear like

 

Glór Cheatharlach

 

But this is far too much work as the entire site needs these characters over and over again. I have looked at the source code of other irish language sites and they have the special characters straight there in the code with no stuff like ó and it displays in my browser perfectly. If I copy and paste that text into my html page it does not work and I get junk characters again. I really need to crack this one. Will you please look at the following site to see what I mean about the characters:

 

www.glorcheatharlach.ie

 

Take a look at the source code and see that the characters are written straight in and display fine except for when I do it in my pages.

 

Thanks

 

[Mchl]

Make sure you have this

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

 

in your html's head, and that your source is saved as utf-8 without BOM (you can easily check that, and convert if needed using Notepad++)

[geroid]

Sorry Mchl

No idea what BOM is or how to save a file in it. Can you explain?

[Mchl]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte-order_mark

 

(you can easily check that, and convert if needed using Notepad++)

 

 

[Axeia]

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

 

Works for firefox etc to, IE still needs the meta tag though, but might slightly speed up page rendering if you send out the header.