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SaturnsEye
SaturnsEye

Reputation: 6499

Why are there random characters appearing in my code?

I create email flyers and for some reason I am getting weird characters appearing near others that aren't numerical or alphabetical. They seem to appear when I come back to the file at a later date, it doesn't happen as soon as I type.

I'm not sure if its something to do with my Doctype because it's the same as I've been doing for the past 2/3 years and I've only noticed this problem now happening over the past month or so.

My Doctype:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

Here is an example of what I mean. These have appeared next to a £ and a '

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 1354

Answers (1)

Rounin
Rounin

Reputation: 29453

Try giving your documents an HTML5 doctype:

<!DOCTYPE html>

and specifically declaring a character set of UTF-8:

<meta charset="utf-8">

Eg.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title> ...

Upvotes: 4

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