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i've got another problem.

for my websites are in german language, users are using typographs like ä,ö,ü and i have to transform them into html-tags ( ä ö ü) just because linksql can't deal with them correctly (i think so).
the transformation has to be done before add.cgi inserts the data into the database.

has anybody a clue/idea ?


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Hi,

Links SQL should be able to handle accents properly. This is the first I've heard of it. Can you explain a bit more what happens? If you do a:

SELECT Title FROM Links WHERE ID = ??

where ?? is the ID number of the link that has accents in the title, what does it say? Are they stored properly in MySQL?

Cheers,

Alex

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Hi,

maybe its just a problem with displaying the accented characters on the html page?

Then you should possibly use these meta tags in the <head>...</head> part of your templates:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META NAME="language" CONTENT="de">

That should do it (works ok for my site which is in German language, too).

Regards,
Andreas

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Thanks,

that's it ! Sometimes it's so easy, but you have to know it !

I'm really happy !

I have to try a bit around with submitting, eMails and so on, but it seems to work well.