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This has nothing to do with CKEditor. Please read up on UTF-8 charset and the different ways servers, and even browsers, handle it.

When are those special characters replaced by incorrect ones? Immediately when you type (that could be a CKEditor issue)? Or after the content is saved on server and loaded again (that also could be CKEditor's fault, but it's more likely backend/integration issue)? Or in different situation?

I'm polish and there's no problem with characters specific for my language.

Hi,

There are many posts on this subject but so far I haven't found what I'm looking for.

I want to provide some mini keyboards for these languages: French, German, Italian and Spanish  for users who don't have the necessary characters on their keyboards. I use buttons to insert these characters.

If  I use a French keyboard to type in an accented character there is no problem but if I do this: document.getElementById("txtArea").value = "è"     I get this: �

However, if I replace <meta charset="utf-8">  with <meta charset="ISO-8859-1"> the accented characters are displayed correctly but all the posts I have read on this subject seem to indicate that I should not be using ISO-8859-1. 

Have I missed something? Should I be doing this differently. Is it possible to insert characters in this way using utf-8?

Thanks for your time.

 

Re. the problem described above I think I have solved it by using:

document.getElementById("txtArea").value = String.fromCharCode(232);

This functions even if i use <meta charset="utf-8"> 

Maybe this will help someone else or maybe I'm the only dummy on this forum! :-)