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Turkish characters are distorted with firefox wheras I can see them OK with IE.

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I have a website in Turkish .

"http://www.siirparki.com/fihrist.html" 

Turkish charactes ,such as ç, ı, ş, ö,ü etc sometimes show as ? or some strange charactes. I can see them perfectly well with internet explorer. Also the page is distorted, so the bacground image repeats. Again, there is no problem about this when I use IE. I get complaints from my visitors also.

Thanks for your concern in advance.

I have a website in Turkish . "http://www.siirparki.com/fihrist.html" Turkish charactes ,such as ç, ı, ş, ö,ü etc sometimes show as ? or some strange charactes. I can see them perfectly well with internet explorer. Also the page is distorted, so the bacground image repeats. Again, there is no problem about this when I use IE. I get complaints from my visitors also. Thanks for your concern in advance.

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You're welcome

The server currently sends that page as Windows-1252, so you may want to change that encoding to ISO-8859-9 if that is how you saved the page.

It would probably be better to save the pages of your website in Unicode and re-upload the files.

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Do you see the characters here?

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Yes, I do.

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You can check the encoding if you get missing or wrong characters.

In this case you need Western (Windows-1252) to get the correct text.

  • Firefox > Web Developer > Character Encoding
  • View > Character Encoding
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By changing character encoding to Türkçe- (ISI-8859-9) the Turkish characters became OK. Thanks so much for your help.

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You're welcome

The server currently sends that page as Windows-1252, so you may want to change that encoding to ISO-8859-9 if that is how you saved the page.

It would probably be better to save the pages of your website in Unicode and re-upload the files.