CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user1249679
user1249679

Reputation:

utf8 not supporting for other languages why?

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

it is not working like i have my site which can be translated in 20 languages but in some languages like turkish , japanese it shows � symbol instead of space or " and many others

Upvotes: 1

Views: 440

Answers (5)

Jukka K. Korpela
Jukka K. Korpela

Reputation: 201568

The problem is caused by the admin tool you are using. The tool injects data into a UTF-8 encoded data in some other encoding. As the tool has not been described, the specific causes cannot be isolated. The pages mentioned do not exhibit the problem, and they specify the UTF-8 encoding in HTTP headers, so the meta tag is ignored in the online context (though useful for offline use).

Upvotes: 0

ahmetunal
ahmetunal

Reputation: 3950

for php, you need to add a utf-8 header

header ('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

Upvotes: 1

Berry Langerak
Berry Langerak

Reputation: 18859

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

Just adding a Content-Type header in HTML doesn't make anything utf-8. It merely tells the browser to expect utf-8. If your source files are not in utf-8, or the database columns in which data is stored isn't utf-8, or if the connection to the database itself isn't utf-8, or if you're sending a HTTP header telling it isn't utf-8, it will not work. There's just one way of dealing with utf-8: make sure everything is in utf-8.

Upvotes: 0

Artjom Kurapov
Artjom Kurapov

Reputation: 6155

Letting know browser that text is in unicode and actually providing data in unicode is not the same. Check your files for unicode, database data for unicode and transformation that is done with it while serving. Provide more information to pinpoint your problem

Upvotes: 1

Florian Rappl
Florian Rappl

Reputation: 3189

Since I don't know your site I can just guess in the dark.

Setting

<meta charset="utf-8" />

will not be the only thing you have to do. If your document is saved as ASCII your problems won't be solved. Additionally you have to set the document encoding correctly (the meta tag just tells the browser which encoding to use, not which one IS actually used). So open the document with a (good) text editor like SublimeText / Notepad++ or what you prefer and set the encoding to UTF-8.

Upvotes: 2

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