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Hélène Galiana de la Fuente
Hélène Galiana de la Fuente
882 Points
Posted by Hélène Galiana de la Fuente
Hélène Galiana de la Fuente
882 Points

What should I do to make French special caracters display properly?

Hi everyone!

I am new on Treehouse. I am here to learn about the very basics of front-end development. I just finished the introduction and basics of HTML parts, but I am quite bothered by the way French special caracters are showing when I write on it.

All those caracters are displaying bizarrely:

  • "é, à, ù, ë, ç, è," etc.

Does someone knows how to fix this?

Thank you very much in advance for the help (and sorry for the mistakes I might be doing while writing in English).

Hélène

2 Answers

victor cooper
victor cooper
6,436 Points
victor cooper
victor cooper
6,436 Points 
<!doctype html>
<html lang="fr">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Website title</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <!-- your amazing website here -->
  </body>
</html>

This is a very basic html5 template you can use and it should work with french, the meta tag with the charset of utf-8 works with most languages, if you still have problems you can use the french html characters https://websitebuilders.com/tools/html-codes/french/

Hélène Galiana de la Fuente
Hélène Galiana de la Fuente
882 Points
Hélène Galiana de la Fuente
Hélène Galiana de la Fuente
882 Points

Hi Victor!

It works, thank you very much!

Have a really nice day :)