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Problem when clients using accent (special characters)

 
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cadugauch



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 5:37 am    Post subject: Problem when clients using accent (special characters) Reply with quote

I am having a problem..most of my clients are from Brasil and whenever they write something in portuguese that requires an accent (á, ç, í) or something like that i get an email with their name, email and a BLANK message.

Can this be corrected:
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mycontac
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Joined: 31 Dec 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 5:47 am    Post subject: Reply Reply with quote

Our forms do accept these characters, but you need to make sure that the web page the form is displayed on is using the UTF-8 character set. If you look at your web page code, you will typically have a meta line that sets the character set.

It should look like this:

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


If you do not have the above line of code within the <head> of your document, you need to add it. If you have it, but the charset parameter is set to something other than utf-8, change it so that it looks like the above code. This will fix the problem.

Nick Ladd
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cadugauch



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 6:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i tried that and no luck!

i use 3DCART as my shopping cart so customizing is a little tricky...but i changed the main FRAME for this code

Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>BabyFacil.com</title>
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.babyfacil.com" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

<script language="JavaScript" src="assets/templates/common/js/utilities.js" type="text/JavaScript"></script>
<link rel="StyleSheet" href="assets/templates/v32021/css/default_modified.css" type="text/css" media="screen">
<link rel="StyleSheet" href="assets/templates/common/js/tabs.css" type="text/css" media="screen">


don~t know what else to try!
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mycontac
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Joined: 31 Dec 2003
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 12, 2013 8:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

cadugauch wrote:
i tried that and no luck!

i use 3DCART as my shopping cart so customizing is a little tricky...but i changed the main FRAME for this code

Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>BabyFacil.com</title>
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.babyfacil.com" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

<script language="JavaScript" src="assets/templates/common/js/utilities.js" type="text/JavaScript"></script>
<link rel="StyleSheet" href="assets/templates/v32021/css/default_modified.css" type="text/css" media="screen">
<link rel="StyleSheet" href="assets/templates/common/js/tabs.css" type="text/css" media="screen">


don~t know what else to try!


Do you have a link to the form on your site? I'd like to look at the code. I am certain that it is a character encoding issue.

Nick Ladd
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