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ñ, ü and the question marks

If your Iradi site shows ? instead of ñ or ü, there are only three reasons, and 90% of the time it is the first.

1. The file was saved in "ANSI". Save as UTF-8. In Notepad it is in the bottom of the Save window, a very small list.


2. The page does not say it is UTF-8. Add <meta charset="utf-8"> as the first line in head.


3. The database says "latin1". Ask whoever made the database. Usually it was someone's nephew.

A client of mine had all three at once. We fixed them one by one, like layers of an onion, with some crying.