Handling special characters

[Palanisamy, Giri]

The numbers (ñ) also just displayed as numbers, didn't convert it to special characters! 


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Palanisamy, Giri wrote:
>
> I have also tried adding the special characters directly in to the dbf file (edited in excel) ie directly added "La Cigüeña", but my mapserver application displayed as "La Cige¤a".
>

I'm not sure why the entities conversion doesn't work for you, but using
the numerical value might work.

For "ñ", use "ñ"

For the complete list, see
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html

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