French accent issue

[jgwill]

Hi
So far, very useful. I was wondering if the french accent issue you can see in the image can be fixed with ease :) ?
regards

[oscarmorrison]

PRs welcome

[benjaminwiseboy]

Hello, I'm new to Open source. How can I contribute to this topic ?

[oscarmorrison]

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-contribute-to-open-source-projects-beginners-guide/

[heyallan]

What is the character that is failing?
How to reproduce?

[adsuth]

What is the character that is failing? How to reproduce?

Based on context, probably a C-Cedilla ( ç ).

Having trouble reproducing the problem, seems to process them fine for me.
Has this been patched?

[StefanoCappellini]

It's a matter of charset encoding. Their server doesn't specify any charset encoding within the Content-Type header. The browser start searching for the meta tag - that's simply not there, being generated afterwards - reverting to default content type.
Possible solutions (I'm not an expert of md-page):

• Setting the charset encoding directly from Apache (wise)
• Putting the JS and the Markdown inside an html template that pre-defines the charset meta tag (it should work without duplicates, am I correct?)
• Saving the file not as UTF-8 but UTF-8 with BOM

[StefanoCappellini]

I've just set up a small demo:

• With content-type charset: http://tests.codingwh.com/md-page-accent/
• Without: http://tests.codingwh.com/md-page-accent/without
• With BOM: http://tests.codingwh.com/md-page-accent/bom/

It happens, obviously, only if the default charset of the browser is different from utf8 :D

[oscarmorrison]

See: https://github.com/oscarmorrison/md-page/blob/main/docs/common_problems.md