Hi David The problem is the meta tag sets a wrong encoding for the xhtml documents. in <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> change iso-8859-1 to utf8 :
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="de" xml:lang="de" > <head> <title>LG GDR-H30N</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf8"> </head> <body> . . . </html> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 1:30 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am having a problem under linux.. with my html... with german > characters.. > > Nothing is wrong with the system, every other german web page displays > properly. > > Problem is the word "höchsten" in the following page. When it gets > displayed in the browser it gets shown as "höchsten". > > I know something is wrong - just not sure what it is. > > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="de" xml:lang="de" > > <head> > <title>LG GDR-H30N</title> > <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> > </head> > <body> > <table height="708" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" > cellpadding="0"> > <tr> > <td id="header"> > DVD-Rom Laufwerk > </td> > </tr> > <tr> > <td id="main"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" > cellspacing="0"> > <tr> > <td><img name="graphics1" align="left" border="0" width="550" height="421" > src="
 ../Images/LG-GDR-H10N_350_lge.jpg
 "/></td> > <td> > <h3 class="red"> > Mit einer Geschwindigkeit von 16x (22.1 MB/Sek) wird das LG GDR-H30N > höchsten > </h3> > <p></p> > <table id="spec" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> > <tr> > <td> > <h3 class="red"> Specs:</h3> > <ul type="disc"> > <li> > 52 Speed > </li> > </ul> > </td> > </tr></table> > </td> > </tr> > </table></td> > </tr> > <tr> > <td id="footer"> > <table width="100%" border="0" id="priceBar"> > <tr> > <td width="73%" align="right"></td> > <td width="27%" align="right"><h1> </h1></td> > </tr> > </table> > </td> > </tr> > </table> > </body> > </html> > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html