Character encoding for French Accents

Question

I\'m developing my first website for a French client and I\'m having massive issues with accents being displayed as \"?\".After googling it for days, I thought I understood,

Answer 1

If intérêt shows up as intérêt you likely (i.e. short of corruption due to double encoding) have UTF-8 encoded text being shown up as if it were ISO-8859-1.

Make sure the headers are correctly formed and present the content as being UTF-8 encoded.