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The spanish charters show up with weird symbols in my browser. What should I do?

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The spanish characters (spanish site) show up with weird symbols instead of for example n with a tilde. see elmiraodordeguadal.com

The spanish characters (spanish site) show up with weird symbols instead of for example n with a tilde. see elmiraodordeguadal.com

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cor-el
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The server sends the file with the wrong encoding: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 (BOM UTF-8)

You need to switch the encoding to Unicode (UTF-8):

  • Firefox > Web Developer > Character Encoding (or View > Character Encoding)