Special Characters Won't Display

[musicgirl780]

Special characters (such as accents) won't display in my browser (in spite of having a unicode font as my default).

[NathanWilliams]

What browser & operating system are you using?
Can you open a character map tool & see / use them from there?

On windows you want something like this:
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/charmap.html

On a mac:
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/keyboards/charpalosx.html