By rockgeek on

I installed Drupal 6.2 via fantastico and using the package (setup several sites this way) but when I go to type in some Polish letters such as "ś", all I get is a question mark.

What's going on - please can someone help?

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zeta ζ commented

I think this partly depends on the theme. This controls the page’s language, character set, and the text’s font, which needs to have the glyphs you require.

It is possible to set up so that it works on some client browsers and not others — If you set the font to font: Rare-unicode-font, monospace; it might work on a client that has Rare-unicode-font installed which has the glyph "ś", but not on another client that doesn’t have this font, and so uses monospace instead, which might only have ASCII glyphs.

You need to make sure the language is set correctly (pl ?), the character set is central Europe or unicode (utf-8 ?) and all the fonts have the Polish glyphs and at least one is likely to be installed on your audience’s browser.

If you set the character set to unicode (utf-8 ?) this is probably enough for it to work on most modern computers.
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rockgeek commented

I'm using Garland - does that make a difference?

The site is meant to be in English with the occasional Polish word on it.

What do I need to do?

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rockgeek commented

http://wiesniacy.com/site/ seems ok but when I go to http://wiesniacy.com/site/node/2, the top right link messes up and replaces the s with a question mark.

Also if you go to: http://wiesniacy.com/site/node/2, you'll see that the titles are plain "S's" but if I go into http://wiesniacy.com/site/node/7, the title has the accented "S"!!!!!

Any ideas?

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zeta ζ commented

All examples are accented s on my browser.

The only difference I can find is that your headings are Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif and your links are Verdana,sans-serif.

This is a problem with the fonts installed on your browser, not your site. Maybe you don’t have Verdana installed, and your sans-serif font doesn’t have an accented s.

I can only suggest that you change the font-family to Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif on line 15 of Garland’s style.css and accept that your site doesn’t have complete control over the browser.
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