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matghazaryan
matghazaryan

Reputation: 5896

How to display proper UTF-8 encoding?

<html>
    <head>
        <title>тест</title>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

I have set the meta tag, but every time I open up the browser (Chrome), I have to go to Tools -> Encoding and set encoding on UTF-8 in order to make it work.

Is there a way to avoid this step so browser displays proper UTF-8?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3994

Answers (3)

Rebelteam
Rebelteam

Reputation: 1

When you use a text editor to view your content try to see your enconding: If the file enconding is different use this PowerShell script to change your enconding to UTF-8. After that you need to upload again your files into teh web server.

Get-ChildItem *.php -Recurse | ForEach-Object {
$content = $_ | Get-Content

Set-Content -PassThru $_.Fullname $content -Encoding UTF8 -Force}

Upvotes: 0

Saic Siquot
Saic Siquot

Reputation: 6513

The correct order is

<html>
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    <title>тест</title>

Also include before any other output on the php code, and even before the embedd html:

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

Upvotes: 1

Asaph
Asaph

Reputation: 162851

Your web server is probably sending a Content-Type header with a different charset. This will take precedence over your <meta> tag. Confirm this on the command line using curl (*nix system required):

curl -i http://example.com/yourpage.php

Look at the http headers at the beginning of the response and find the Content-Type header.

You can remedy this in a couple of ways:

  1. Configure your web server (I'm guessing Apache) to send the appropriate charset. See Apache docs for AddDefaultCharset.

  2. Set the Content-Type header just in your script using the header() function. Like this:

    header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');

    But make sure to put this call before any other output to the browser or else PHP will choke.

Upvotes: 6

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