Improper í display (Spanish)

This problem is for comments only and in the CVS version.

I don’t really know what could be wrong.
Can you try posting a comment with as many spanish accents as you can, there?
(I already typed one and the i turned right…)

Do you have any news about this problem? I made the test that suggest michel_v and the problem live in his blog, I have just update CVS and have the problem too.

I tested in Gecko and got a weird character, I tested in MSIE and got an à instead of the í.
It looks like we’ll have to find a way to convert this character to its proper Unicode code point.

Yes, you are right. I have just update from CVS and the problem remains there.

This has to do with the characterset. The correct characterset to display spanish or latin characters is iso-8859-1.

This doesn’t have anything to do with the character set, since Spanish and other latin languages can easily be represented with UTF8.
The problem seems to lie in the interaction between PHP and MySQL.
When I comment using that accented i, I get a comment notification email in UTF8 that does have the right character, and then the comment is stored. When it’s retrieved, the character isn’t right.
We don’t apply filter that could alter particular double-bytes characters, so either it is an obscure bug in kses or one with MySQL.

I’m having the same problem with utf-8 and german special characters after upgrading to WP1.2.
I changed WP to use iso-8859-1 in Options/Reading and in the templates. That helped but isn’t a real solution.

The problem seams to be with some of the Textile plugins… Try to disable them.. and then UTF will work fine.