Problem with French characters with updateContent

I have this problem with Spry, (had it also with YUI a few
months ago) with special french characters
(éèçàù). I use encoding UTF-8, but
iso-8859-1 isn't working either. I put some examples here:
http://www.eventsonholiday.com/test_loadurl.asp
As long as it is static content, no problem. But when I get
content from a recordset from an Access database: trouble.
In IE7 the french characters are even worse, and I get the
error: null is empty or not an object

I think I found a solution. I found a few resources on the
internet that said: xmlhttprequest always sends data as utf-8 by
default. So when all the other pages use iso-8859-1, there's a
problem. It can be solved this way: when retrieving recordset
fields from ASP I use
HTMLEncoding like this:
<%=Server.HTMLEncode(RSevents.Fields.Item("event_location").Value)%>.
I have to do this for each field in the page, what means some extra
work.
For PHP it should be done with
htmlentities
If anyone has a solution without using the Server.HTMLEncode
method, tell me...

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import java.net.ServerSocket;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;
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import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.ListIterator;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;
import java.awt.event.WindowAdapter;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.MouseListener;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.event.KeyListener;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
import java.awt.Point;
import java.awt.Button;
import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
//import javax.swing.JTextPane;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.JList;
import javax.swing.DefaultListModel;
import javax.swing.JMenuBar;
import javax.swing.JMenu;
import javax.swing.JMenuItem;
import javax.swing.JPopupMenu;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
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* it is a frame with a text field for entering messages and a
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* When the server sends "SUBMITNAME" the client replies with the
* desired screen name. The server will keep sending "SUBMITNAME"
* requests as long as the client submits screen names that are
* already in use. When the server sends a line beginning
* with "NAMEACCEPTED" the client is now allowed to start
* sending the server arbitrary strings to be broadcast to all
* chatters connected to the server. When the server sends a
* line beginning with "MESSAGE " then all characters following
* this string should be displayed in its message area.
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BufferedReader in;
PrintWriter out;
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Math Chatter version 0.3");
JTextField textField = new JTextField(40);
JTextArea messageArea = new JTextArea(25, 40);
//JTextPane messageArea = new JTextPane();
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JMenuBar menuBar = new JMenuBar();
// File Menu and MenuItems
JMenu fileMenu = new JMenu();
JMenuItem connectMenuItem = new JMenuItem();
JMenuItem disconnectMenuItem = new JMenuItem();
JMenuItem exitMenuItem = new JMenuItem();
// Help Menu and MenuItems
JMenu helpMenu = new JMenu();
JMenuItem aboutMenuItem = new JMenuItem();
JOptionPane aboutDialog = new JOptionPane();
// Message Area Popup Menu and MenuItems
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JMenuItem connectPopupMenuItem = new JMenuItem();
JMenuItem disconnectPopupMenuItem = new JMenuItem();
JMenuItem clearTextMenuItem = new JMenuItem();
JMenuItem exitPopupMenuItem = new JMenuItem();
MouseListener messageAreaPopupListener = new messageAreaPopupListener();
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JPopupMenu userAreaPopupMenu = new JPopupMenu();
JMenuItem pingPopupMenuItem = new JMenuItem();
JMenuItem disconnectUserPopupMenuItem = new JMenuItem();
JMenuItem disconnectAllUsersPopupMenuItem = new JMenuItem();
MouseListener userAreaPopupListener = new userAreaPopupListener();
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JPanel sendTextPanel = new JPanel();
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JPanel buttonPanel = new JPanel();
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JPanel displayPanel = new JPanel();
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JList userNamesList = new JList(listModel);
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Button clearButton = new Button();
Button infinityButton = new Button();
Button thetaButton = new Button();
Button limitButton = new Button();
Button thereforeButton = new Button();
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* only becomes editable AFTER the client receives the NAMEACCEPTED
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frame.setJMenuBar(menuBar);
fileMenu.setText("File");
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public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
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/*out.println("CONNECT");
try {
run();
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ex.printStackTrace();
fileMenu.add(connectMenuItem);
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public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
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fileMenu.add(disconnectMenuItem);
exitMenuItem.setText("Exit");
exitMenuItem.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
frame.dispose();
System.exit(0);
return;
fileMenu.add(exitMenuItem);
menuBar.add(fileMenu);
helpMenu.setText("Help");
aboutMenuItem.setText("About");
aboutMenuItem.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
aboutDialog.setDoubleBuffered(true);
aboutDialog.showMessageDialog(frame,
"Chat Server and Client were originally written by Ray Toal and were found at \n http://www.technocage.com/~ray/viewsource.jsp?java/networking/ChatServer.java and \n http://www.technocage.com/~ray/viewsource.jsp?java/networking/ChatClient.java. \n\n Math Chatter and all revisions have been done by William Ready.",
"About Math Chatter Server and Client version 0.3",
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helpMenu.add(aboutMenuItem);
menuBar.add(helpMenu);
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connectPopupMenuItem.setText("Connect");
connectPopupMenuItem.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
showWhoopsDialog();
disconnectPopupMenuItem.setText("Disconnect");
disconnectPopupMenuItem.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
chatDisconnect();
clearTextMenuItem.setText("Clear text");
clearTextMenuItem.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
messageArea.setText("");
exitPopupMenuItem.setText("Exit");
exitPopupMenuItem.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
frame.dispose();
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messageAreaPopupMenu.add(disconnectPopupMenuItem);
messageAreaPopupMenu.add(clearTextMenuItem);
messageAreaPopupMenu.add(exitPopupMenuItem);
messageArea.addMouseListener(messageAreaPopupListener);
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pingPopupMenuItem.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
//System.out.println("Yo yo yo");
disconnectUserPopupMenuItem.setText("Disconnect User");
disconnectUserPopupMenuItem.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
if (userNamesList.getSelectedValue() != null) {
//System.out.println("Yo yo yo");
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//disconnectUserPopupMenuItem.setEnabled(false);
disconnectUserPopupMenuItem.setVisible(false);
disconnectAllUsersPopupMenuItem.setText("Disconnect All Users");
disconnectUserPopupMenuItem.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
if (userNamesList.getSelectedValue() != null) {
//System.out.println("Yo yo yo");
out.println("DISCONNECTALLUSERS");
//disconnectUserPopupMenuItem.setEnabled(false);
disconnectAllUsersPopupMenuItem.setVisible(false);
userAreaPopupMenu.add(pingPopupMenuItem);
userAreaPopupMenu.add(disconnectUserPopupMenuItem);
userAreaPopupMenu.add(disconnectAllUsersPopupMenuItem);
userNamesList.addMouseListener(userAreaPopupListener);
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// -----------> End Popup Menus
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textField.setEditable(false);
textField.requestDefaultFocus();
messageArea.setEditable(false);
sendTextPanel.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
sendTextPanel.add(textField);
sendButton.setLabel("Send");
sendButton.setEnabled(false);
sendTextPanel.add(sendButton);
clearButton.setLabel("Clear");
sendTextPanel.add(clearButton);
buttonPanel.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
buttonPanel.add(buttonLabel);
infinityButton.setLabel("\u221e");
buttonPanel.add(infinityButton);
     thetaButton.setLabel("\u03b8");
buttonPanel.add(thetaButton);
limitButton.setLabel("lim");
buttonPanel.add(limitButton);
thereforeButton.setLabel("\u2234");
buttonPanel.add(thereforeButton);
userNamesList.setVisibleRowCount(26);
userNamesList.setFixedCellWidth(110);
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JScrollPane messageAreaScrollPane = new JScrollPane(messageArea);
displayPanel.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
displayPanel.add(messageAreaScrollPane);
displayPanel.add(nameTextScrollPane);
frame.getContentPane().add(sendTextPanel, "North");
frame.getContentPane().add(displayPanel, "Center");
frame.getContentPane().add(buttonPanel, "South");
frame.pack();
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textField.addKeyListener(new KeyListener() {
public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e){ }
public void keyTyped(KeyEvent e){
if (e.getKeyChar() == KeyEvent.VK_UP) {
if (sentMessageIterator.hasNext()) {
textField.setText((String)sentMessageIterator.next());
if (e.getKeyChar() == KeyEvent.VK_DOWN) {
if (sentMessageIterator.hasPrevious()) {
textField.setText((String)sentMessageIterator.previous());
if (e.getKeyChar() == KeyEvent.VK_ENTER) {
String text = textField.getText();
if (text != null && !(text.equals(""))) {
sentMessageList.addFirst(textField.getText());
sentMessageIterator = sentMessageList.listIterator();
out.println(textField.getText());
textField.setText("");
public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e){}
sendButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
out.println(textField.getText());
textField.setText("");
textField.requestFocus();
clearButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
textField.setText("");
textField.requestFocus();
infinityButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
textField.setText(textField.getText() +"\u221e");
textField.requestFocus();
thetaButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
textField.setText(textField.getText() +"\u03b8");
textField.requestFocus();
limitButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
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"Enter the value that the variable approaches. \n If the value is infinity, type in inf. \n (Note: the variable name is irrelevant)",
"Value that variable approaches",
JOptionPane.QUESTION_MESSAGE);
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textField.setText(textField.getText() +"lim [x->\u221e] ");
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public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
textField.setText(textField.getText() +"\u2234");
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frame,
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"Welcome to the Chatter",
JOptionPane.QUESTION_MESSAGE);
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JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(frame,
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"Whoops!",
JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
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messageArea.append("You have disconnected from the Chat Server\n");
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messageArea.setEnabled(false);
userNamesList.setEnabled(false);
fileMenu.requestFocus();
out.println("DISCONNECT");
* Prompt for and return the desired screen name.
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return JOptionPane.showInputDialog(
frame,
"Choose a screen name:",
"Screen name selection",
JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);
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return JOptionPane.showInputDialog(
frame,
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"Password Input",
JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);
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// Make connection and initialize streams
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if (serverAddress != null && !(serverAddress.equals(""))) {
Socket socket = new Socket(serverAddress, 9001);
in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
socket.getInputStream()));
out = new PrintWriter(socket.getOutputStream(), true);
// Process all messages from server, according to the protocol.
while (true) {
try {
String line = in.readLine();
if (line.startsWith("SUBMITNAME")) {
out.println(getName());
          } else if (line.startsWith("NAMEACCEPTED")) {
textField.setEditable(true);
          out.println("LISTUSERS");
sendButton.setEnabled(true);
//messageArea.setEnabled(true);
} else if (line.startsWith("SUBMITPASSWORD")) {
out.println(getPassword());
} else if (line.startsWith("GRANTEDADMIN")) {
isAdmin = true;
//disconnectUserPopupMenuItem.setEnabled(true);
disconnectUserPopupMenuItem.setVisible(true);
disconnectAllUsersPopupMenuItem.setVisible(true);
} else if (line.startsWith("DISCONNECT")) {
sendButton.setEnabled(false);
return;
} else if (line.startsWith("USERLIST")) {
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          while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
          usersHashSet.add(st.nextToken());
listModel.removeAllElements();
for (Iterator i = usersHashSet.iterator(); i.hasNext(); ) {
          listModel.addElement(i.next());
} else if (line.startsWith("USERJOIN")) {
          String userJoinName = line.substring(8).trim();
          usersHashSet.add(userJoinName);
          listModel.addElement(userJoinName);
} else if (line.startsWith("USERQUIT")) {
          String userQuitName = line.substring(8).trim();
          usersHashSet.remove(userQuitName);
listModel.removeElement(userQuitName);
} else if (line.startsWith("MESSAGE")) {
messageArea.setFont(new Font("Lucida Sans", Font.PLAIN, 12));
messageArea.append(line.substring(8) + "\n");
catch (Exception e) {
//e.printStackTrace();
return;
* Runs the client as an application with a closeable frame.
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
ChatClient client = new ChatClient();
client.frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
client.frame.setLocation(200, 100);
client.frame.show();
client.run();
class messageAreaPopupListener extends MouseAdapter {
public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
maybeShowPopup(e);
public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {
maybeShowPopup(e);
private void maybeShowPopup(MouseEvent e) {
if (e.isPopupTrigger()) {
messageAreaPopupMenu.show(e.getComponent(),
e.getX(), e.getY());
class userAreaPopupListener extends MouseAdapter {
public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
maybeShowPopup(e);
public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {
maybeShowPopup(e);
private void maybeShowPopup(MouseEvent e) {
if (e.isPopupTrigger()) {
userAreaPopupMenu.show(e.getComponent(),
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Yes, the code is large, isn't it. It is a good idea, when you have a problem you can't solve, to remove unnecessary code. When the problem disappears, then you know the code you just removed was probably the source of the problem.
But in your case, I think that none of the 1000 lines of code you posted are the problem. You appear to be using Lucida Sans, which is a positive sign; it can render many of the characters you have hard-coded in your program. But apparently the problem is with characters that are coming from somewhere else? And you are using a PrintWriter to send them there and a BufferedReader to get them back? These convert your data from characters to bytes and back again using the default encoding for your system. Chances are that this encoding is some "extended ASCII" encoding that doesn't know how to map anything above \u00ff. You need to get an InputStreamReader and an OutputStreamWriter into your transmission. (Wrap your socket.getInputStream() in an InputStreamReader and wrap that in a BufferedReader, etc.) These objects can take an encoding name as their second parameter; try "UTF-8" or "UTF8" for the encoding. Their API documentation has a link to a page about encodings; follow that if you need more info.

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The database NLS params are as follows: NLS_LANGUAGE = AMERICAN, NLS_TERRITORY = AMERICA, NLS_CHARACTERSET =
WE8ISO8859P1 and NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET = AL16UTF16. The SQL*Loader control file contains the lines:
CHARACTERSET UTF16
BYTEORDER BIG
The data loads but I get question marks in the NVARCHAR2 columns. I tried setting NLS_LANG to AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1 and it still loads
the same way. Do I need to change the NLS_CHARACTERSET to UTF16 as well? What else could I be missing?

Please check the below. It addresses the same problem as yours:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Database/Oracle/10.x/Q_23665329.html

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I have a problem when i query a string containing the '' i want that ORACLE FORMS find also the string containing 'OE' and '' because they are the same in french.
I dont want to code those in the pre-query triggers because i have around 30 forms with a lot of string field containing those characters
Do you have any solution.?
thank you for your reply

Hi Corey
To answer your questions I am on windows 7 IE 8 and also tried in firefox 3.6
backend is windows 2000 / IIS 6 / Coldfusion 8
I am able to enter the characters in the dialog box but during the save they are altered
I created a basic test page with nothing but the following code
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ice="http://ns.adobe.com/incontextediting">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>test</title>
</head>
<body>
<div ice:editable="*" >
<p>Test test</p>
</div>
</div>
<script src="/includes/ice/ice.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body>
</html>
saved it as test-characters.cfm (coldfusion page) and tested it out
problem was still there however when I save the page as a .html file and test it out the problem is no longer present
So the problem seems to only occur when using .cfm pages (even if there is no cf code on them)
I am going to send you a private message with access to my test pages in case your inclined to take a look
Thanks for you help so far

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I am doing a French/English site. The only way I can do this is do two sites and then do creative linking. That sucks. Go Live allowed me to have as many pages as I wanted and Menu Machine worked pretty decently as it allowed me to have different menus so a bilingual site was a piece of cake. Now I have to do two different sites and the problem is some of the page names in french have accents as needed in that language. The village idiots at adobe did not take that into account and now of couse I have an issue and will need to create navigation for the french elsewhere and import as a graphic. This is beyond stupid. Anybody have a solution. Adobe told me too bad so sad the software is in its' infancy. Well then why the hell did they get rid of Golive which worked well for designers. Because Muse is so dumbed down I am not able to do anything about the menus as the menus are dictated by the page names. If you decide to do a manual menu you can not have just words with state changes as the bloody menus sytem will not allow that. The design requires just the words having state changes this is not abnormal. REALLY. I am beyond frustrated and pissed off and equally pissed off Adobe hangs us out to dry not even having phone contact just some dudes in Inia on the chat which sucked. Any solutions? Anybody at Adobe actually understand this is a problem and might suggest it will be fixed in updates but in the meantime help me solve th eproblem easily. I can live without stupid scrolling I would rather have solid software that is easy to use and some degree of fleixibility if you are a seasoned designer who does a lot of web. But dumbed down for the folks who just want to do a simple site. Yikes this is frustrating. Any help would be appreciated.

Village idiot here, apparently...
In Page Properties you can independently set the page name (used in menu widgets), the page title (displayed in the browser tab) and the file name for the .html file for the page.
To create a menu where only the appearance of the text change across states:
1) select a menu item
2) select each state in the State panel and click the trash can to clear all pre-existing state-specific formating
3) choose the Normal state and set all the text formatting that will be the same across all states
4) select mouse down, roll over or active state
4) set the text properties you want for that state in the Text Panel
5) repeat for the other two states
6) you may want to set the fill and stroke on the menu item Normal state to none, so only the text of the menu items is visible
The automatic "All Pages" and "Top Level" pages menu functionality is currently limited to being site-wide, so for the multi-lingual site you describe your choices are to have one automatic and one manual menu, two manual menus, or create two sites. It depends on the size of your site, the complexity of your menu and your personal preference which is best for your case.
If accents are not being preserved through your workflow, please share:
1) URL for an example page that demonstrates mangled accents
2) How you're uploading your site? Publish to BC? File > Upload to FTP Host? Export and external FTP client?
3) If you're not hosting with Adobe (BC), who's your hosting provider.
If accents are not being preserved that generally indicates a problem with how the files are being transferred to the server and/or a problem with how the server is configured. The output of Muse fully supports accented characters throughout the workflow.
Many members of the user community are active here, along with the technical support team and several members of the development team, like myself. We generally respond most effectively to clear questions with screenshots, URLs of example page, etc.
There are a lot of tutorials, videos, templates, widgets, etc. available online from Adobe and other sources:
http://muse.adobe.com
http://lynda.com
http://muse-themes.com
http://musegrid.com
http://qooqee.com
http://muselayers.com
http://museresources.com
http://museworld.com
etc.

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I am updating a website with french characters and they are not displaying correctly. This website has been live for a long time and had no problems, but while updating some wording/punctuation on the development (before rolling it into live), I am seeing that my characters are failing. We recently bought CF Builder 2 and I believe this to be the problem, as I had something similar happen like this - but with an email blast - a while ago (I ended up having another worker develop the code on his PC with a different program).
I have googled this and have ensured the following settings are correct:
window-->preferences-->workspace--->text-file encoding: UTF-8
project-->properties-->general-->text-file encoding: UTF-8
I've also tried putting
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" >
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Thanks,
Cameron

http://www.virtualhelp.me/applications/51-office/288-firefox-4-doesnt-save-tabs#yvComment288
this should solve some of your problem if it is because you got the '''newer''' version!!

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Hello,
Despite my instance not use French and/or other special
characters in files names, we have inherited a project (approx 2500
topics) with French characters in the file name. When we generated
the project and post it on an Apache server, the topics do not
display as the server replaces the characters with symbols.
RX5, during the generation process, replaced the French
characters with underscores, RX 7.0.1 keeps the characters within
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with underscores during the generation process?
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If this is the other thread, then you did get a response, several in fact. It may not have been the answer you wanted but that's another matter.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/129875#129875
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
@petergrainge

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we have a database of release 10.2.0.5.0 with the following NLS settings:
PARAMETER
VALUE
NLS_CALENDAR
GREGORIAN
NLS_CHARACTERSET
UTF8
NLS_COMP
BINARY
NLS_CURRENCY
€
NLS_DATE_FORMAT
DD.MM.RR
NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE
GERMAN
NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY
€
NLS_ISO_CURRENCY
GERMANY
NLS_LANGUAGE
GERMAN
NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS
BYTE
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET
AL16UTF16
NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP
FALSE
NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS
NLS_SORT
GERMAN
NLS_TERRITORY
GERMANY
NLS_TIME_FORMAT
HH24:MI:SSXFF
NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMA
DD.MM.RR HH24:MI:SSXFF
NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT
DD.MM.RR HH24:MI:SSXFF TZR
NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT
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e.g. FR R�au instead of FR Réseau
When checking the HEX-code of the special french characters in the script these are correct:
é => E9
Setting the environment variable NLS_LANG to FRENCH_FRANCE.UTF8 before executing the script does not make any difference at all.
When checking the sign � in the string FR R�au with the dump function of SQL*Plus I get this result:
Typ=1 Len=3 CharacterSet=UTF8: e9,73,65
Seems to be OK - but why does it get displayed wrong? Is the client - in our case a application - responsible for the "how to display"?
Any help will be appreciated!
Rgds
Jan

Hi,
If you have My Oracle support access I suggest to check one of following two documents:
Oracle Metalink: The correct NLS_LANG in a Windows Environment Doc ID: 179133.1
Oracle Metalink: The correct NLS_LANG setting in Unix Environments Doc ID: 264157.1
depending your env.
Check your data using SQL Developer and see if it displays well. If yes your data is ok in db.

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