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[Davy de Jong]

Hi all,

I'm testing an implementation of virtuemart and have the following problem. On the frontend of the website the character Ø won't show. This character is in the product name.

An example can be found here.

The Ø-characters should be the character Ø. On the administrative pages the Ø is shown. Someone got an idea?

[Joosttt]

This is a problem with encoding. The Ø character isn't a ASCII character, but the encoding is set to western european (windows). If you change this in your browser to UTF-8 you will see that the character are correct (this can be done under page>encoding in IE7, not sure about other browsers/versions).

I checked your source and noticed that your character set should be UTF-8, but the line telling the browser this is corrupt. This line:

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

is the problem. The ">" behind content="text/html; shouldn't be there. If you correct this in the HTML part of your template the problem should be solved.

Let me know if it worked.

[Davy de Jong]

Joosttt,

This is it! Problem solved. Many thanks for your help.

The problem was indeed the above line in my (custom) template. This line was created by a Dreamweaver plugin for making custom Joomla/Mambo templates. So I think we can make more people happy here with this solution.

Kind regards,

Davy de Jong

[Joosttt]

You're welcome