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Nidheesh
Nidheesh

Reputation: 4562

Words showing differently in the browsers

I am working on a site which has some Norwegian words. When I used "På" inside a <span> it is showing as "PÃ¥" in the browser.This is happening only for a particular page. For others it is working fine.I have tried to copy-paste from other working pages.But had no effect.It is showing "PÃ¥" instead of "På".Why this is happening?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 50

Answers (3)

Jukka K. Korpela
Jukka K. Korpela

Reputation: 201548

The character encoding of the page is wrong: the real encoding differs from the declared encoding. Using entity references for all non-Ascii characters would hide the symptoms (with the pertaining risk that later on, when someone inserts an “å”, things go wrong again). But the solution is to remove the conflict.

Check out the tutorial Declaring character encodings in HTML. If you need further help with this, posting the URL (not just copy of all code) is essential.

Upvotes: 1

Viren Rajput
Viren Rajput

Reputation: 5736

Try converting your special characters to equivalent HTML entities using this converter

Upvotes: 2

Kshitij
Kshitij

Reputation: 8614

you need to use &aring insead of å

see this link for html codes- http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm

Upvotes: 2

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