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Posted by Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
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How to setup language in HTML?

Hello

I'm working on a site, and om using Workspaces. I'm form Denmark and we have the letters Æ, Ø and Å. But when i view my website these letters doesn't show correctly. I have tried to set the <html lang="da"... without succes.

Anyone know what to do? :)

2 Answers

Justin Black
Justin Black
24,793 Points
Justin Black
Justin Black
24,793 Points

You MIGHT be able to get by with adding this to between your head tags ( if you dont have it already ):

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

If not, there are entity codes you can use, but that's not elegant at all.

Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
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Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
6,281 Points

Thank you! It helped :)