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Reputation: 1597

VS Code, copyright symbol © shown as � and saved as � or �

In my html source code I have some special symbols like the copyright one <meta content="© Copyright... />

For some text editors these are shown correctly as above, but on VS Code I see it as � and after I save the file, the symbol will be shown as � and � on other editors.

If I explicitly paste the © on VS Code and save it, then on another text editor it will be saved as ©.

How can I solve this? What should I do?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 15312

Answers (4)

alexfrigo
alexfrigo

Reputation: 329

Same problem here - solved by setting "files.encoding": "windows1252" for this workspace.

Upvotes: 2

stackoverflow
stackoverflow

Reputation: 1597

I've found out that the files were saved in ISO-8859-1 encoding, that caused to see like that the symbols even If I had UTF8 set as my default.

Upvotes: 1

James Donnelly
James Donnelly

Reputation: 128796

Ensure your file's encoding is set to something which can accurately display the symbol (like UTF-8):

Encoding Button in VSCode

This can be found in the bottom right of the program in the status bar.

See their documentation on File Encoding Support.

Upvotes: 2

Alex Chermenin
Alex Chermenin

Reputation: 858

Try use HTML codes for special symbols: http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm

Upvotes: 0

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