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French accents display as question marks as do spaces?

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I run a website listing French châteaux and all the accents show up as ? all the time. Spaces also show up as question marks. I'm on mac 10.4 and using Firefox 3.6.3

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== i'm not sure but it happens all the time and not in safari

I run a website listing French châteaux and all the accents show up as ? all the time. Spaces also show up as question marks. I'm on mac 10.4 and using Firefox 3.6.3 == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == i'm not sure but it happens all the time and not in safari

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cor-el
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Can you post a link?

With which encoding did you create that text and which encoding does the server send (Tools > Page Info)?