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    Not your normal incompatibility

    RIght, my mum has made a very simple website for languages (www.languagefun.net)

    I'm used to the normal IE/FF incompatibilities with websites so my mum used dreamweaver to make it (all simple tables, no css)

    BUT

    when you goto this: http://languagefun.net/SPANISHks3Listos1.htm page and click on the links when using FF, they load fine.

    Try it in IE and only the first one works.

    Anyone know why?
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    The page when shown in IE is giving the wrong links....

    Code:
    Link in FF
    http://languagefun.net/SpanishKS3Listos1Modulo2T%FA%20y%20yo.htm
    
    Same link in IE
    http://languagefun.net/SpanishKS3Listos1Modulo2Tú%20y%20yo.htm
    Prolly something to do with the accents on the letters.....

    Try renaming the pages maybe??
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    So basically FF is true multilingual and IE is Xenophobic?
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    actually, its more to do with how your webserver interprets the links.

    it should convert %FA into ú i believe (like it should know that %20 = space
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    It works in FF, not IE.

    So the webserver isn't recognising the accents?
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    Sounds like it, the webserver can't handle the accents in the direct URL but is happy to convert the HTML character code into the accented letter and then find the page.

    Try changing the doctype. At the moment you have

    Code:
    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
    try

    Code:
    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//ES"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
    If that doesnt work then change the doctpye to xhtml and specify the language in the html tag

    Code:
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="es" lang="es">
    Obviously only use that for the pages with Spanish content and/or links

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    basically a web server should be able to 'read' the char codes as accented characters and find the right page, so both ways of browsing should work.. you could probably patch the system, but it'd be easier to just change the names
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    It'll be an ISP so I doubt he can patch anything.

    Another approach would be to change the URL to use the HTML codes e.g. ú becomes &uacute;

    Look here for the full list http://webdesign.about.com/library/blhtmlcodes-sp.htm

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    It'll be easier to find a server side fix, as the website is currently around 1GB in size. :S

    And I'll say that around 60% minimum of the links use accents.
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    Yeah, but it can't be 1Gb of text links ? That's up there with search engines. Just do a find and replace on the doctype or even better use Dreamweaver to set up a library item which you can replace centrally.

    Also, post on the sitepoint forums at www.sitepoint.com. There are some gurus in there who will have much better fixes than anything I could propose

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    1Gb... are you sure?


    If she built the site in dreamweaver, all she should have to do is rename the files and dreamweaver will update all associated links automatically (if she setup the pages as a "site"). It's safest to name links with no special characters or spaces.
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    There's a lot of images there for her Taskmagic files, very cool program, simple and effective for teaching langauges.
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