Thanks for the help, it now seems to be working!

"Gleep" <Gleep@Gleep.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:43:01 GMT, "Matt White" <mgw854@msn.com> wrote:
>
>>I'm currently working on a website that can convert words from English to
>>French and vice versa. My problem is this: every time I try to output a
>>character like é, it comes out as either a box (in IE) or as a
>>question-mark
>>in a diamond (in FF). To get around this, I use the function:
>>str_replace("é", "&eacute;", $french);. This grabs all accented
>>characters
>>and converts them into HTML characters. While I can do this, is there
>>anyway to make sure these characters stay the same and do not need to be
>>replaced?
>>
>>Matt
>
>
> try resetting the browser characters set
> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/csettables.html
> latin 4
>
>