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Jack
Jack

Reputation: 16724

Browser doesn't display unicode properly

This file is in UTF-8 already with:

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

in the top but the word CAFÉ gets displayed as the following:

enter image description here

the HTML is:

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

</head>
<body>
CAFÉ
...
</body>
</html>

How do I fix it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 235

Answers (1)

Jukka K. Korpela
Jukka K. Korpela

Reputation: 201866

The document is in fact interpreted as windows-1252 encoded. The UTF-8 form of “É” consists of the two bytes 0xC3 0x89. Interpreted as windows-1252, they denote “Ô and “‰”.

The most probable cause is that the HTTP headers sent by the server specify windows-1252 as the encoding (or iso-8859-1, which actually means the same thing). This information overrides any meta tags in the document itself.

Upvotes: 4

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