How do I get accents to display correctly?
Let’s get one thing straight. If you’re still using ISO-* shit to have compatibility with people that aren’t using UTF-8 yet, they will never upgrade.. Just use UTF-8 and so we all can use the most modern character encoding… and get on with our lives.
Like the XChat guys say:
Use Unicode ( UTF-8 ) and tell all your friends to use Unicode. Problem solved!
Using UTF 8 on your web page is as simply as including this tag on the head section:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
And on a general Debian/Debian-based Linux system for using UTF-8 within applications issue:
# dpkg-reconfigure locales
and select UTF 8 if it’s not yet enabled.
Ubuntu users see here.
“Just do it”.