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Alex
Alex

Reputation: 97

Chinese text not displaying properly on web page

I am adding some Chinese text to a primarily English web page and am having trouble getting the characters to display properly. I've got the encoding set to UTF-8 in the meta content type tag, and I am copying/pasting the Chinese I was sent from a Word document. The text is still rendering as follows:

繁體中文版

rather than in Chinese characters:

繁體中文版

I'm sure it's an easy fix, but I'm lost as to how to make this happen.

Thanks very much for any help.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7658

Answers (1)

pleasedontbelong
pleasedontbelong

Reputation: 20102

just because the meta tag says that the encoding is UTF8, doesn't mean that the content (file) itself is in UTF8. I mean, if you have a file index.html, the file itself should be encoded as utf8.

To change the encoding of a file in lunix, you can use this command

iconv --from-code=ISO-8859-1 --to-code=UTF-8 ./index.html > ./newIndex.html

but i guess that you are working with windows... and the only way i know change the encoding in windows is the Notepad++

Hope this helps

Upvotes: 2

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