Reputation: 43

Characters not displaying correctly in different browsers

I used certain characters in website such as • — “ ” ‘ ’ º ©. I found that when testing to see what my website looked like under different browsers (BrowserLab) the afore-mentioned characters are replaced with ï¿½.

I then changed the charset in the webpage header from:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

Suddenly all the pages have the above mentioned characters replaced with a ?.

Even more puzzling is this is not always consistent across and even within the same page, as some sections display the character • and © correctly.

In particular, I need to replace the character • with one that will display across browsers, can anyone help me with the answer? Thanks.

Upvotes: 4

Answers (5)

Hemanth Gatadi

Reputation: 1

If you're using Notepad++, I suggest You to use Edit Plus editor to copy the text (which has the special characters) and paste it in your file. This should work.

Upvotes: 0

deceze

Reputation: 522024

The source code needs to be saved in the same encoding as you're instructing the browser to parse it in. If you're saving your files in UTF-8, instruct the browser to parse it as UTF-8 by setting an appropriate HTTP header or HTML meta tag (headers preferable, your web server may be setting one without you knowing). Use a decent editor that clearly tells you what encoding you're saving the file as. If it doesn't display correctly, there's a discrepancy between what you're telling your browser the file is encoded in and what it's really encoded in.

Upvotes: 1