french accents turn in chinese symbol...Help

[dfarkas]

Hello,
today i install my new homepage http://www.panamastrawhat.com/index.html on a new web hosting service in USA (DTS), and i have this big problem: all my french words with accents have chinese symbols. I program the page with frontpage. When I install the same page on my french web hosting service no problem the page appear with accents.
Perhaps the new server don't accept the code from frontpage i don't know. Can you help me?[/url]

[joncase]

Hi,
Try placing this meta tag in your header.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
It worked for me when I tried it in your code.
Jon

[paulhiles]

The Western European or Latin-1 character set (iso-8859-1) is already in place as far as I can see.
When I download the page and view it locally it's fine, but on your server it's still displaying strange characters in place of the grave and accent.

I did notice an error in the head of your page.
You need to add the start of the style tag. (as below)

<style type="text/css">
<!--
body { margin: 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px}
a:link { color: #005CA2; text-decoration: none}
a:visited { color: #005CA2; text-decoration: none}
a:active { color: #0099FF; text-decoration: underline}
a:hover { color: #0099FF; text-decoration: underline}
-->
</style>

Paul