On 8/12/06, Erika <ekm at seastorm.com> wrote: > Ok here is the site: > http://www.capoeiraangolaacupe.org/ > > for some reason, the place from whence I took the text > http://www.geocities.com/capoeira.angola_do_acupe/home.htm > > displayed characters correctly, but my version does not. > > do I need to use special characters (& stuff) > or is it my server or.... what am I doing wrong? > > thanks again (confusing!) > > Erika Your PHP might be advertising outputted content with a different enconding. php.ini should have a line like this: default_charset = "iso-8859-1" This changes the behaviour of your text. I'm Brazilian and whenever working with html I prefer using á (for á) ã (for ã) and so on, to avoid any problems. This way I feel safe ;) Regards, -- Eduardo Bacchi Kienetz LPI Certified - Level 2 http://www.noticiaslinux.com.br/eduardo/