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Reputation: 231

hebrew characters don't show in "UTF-8 without BOM" only "UTF-8"

My html document starts as follows:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>  
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
</head>
אבגד

If I encode my document as UTF-8, it appears correctly in the browser. If I encode as UTF-8 without BOM (which I understand is more standard) I get unusual characters.

What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2112

Answers (1)

Josh Lee
Josh Lee

Reputation: 177584

Your web server is declaring that the encoding is ISO-8859-1, and the browser is respecting that. Ironically enough, using a byte order mark sends a stronger signal to the browser that the encoding must actually be UTF-8. (The exact reason for this is complicated and boring.)

Fixing your web server depends on what the server is. If this is a static resource on disk served by Apache httpd, then something like AddCharset UTF-8 .html will add the header.

If this resource is served dynamically, then you should make sure you add the proper HTTP headers when producing the response, something like self.send_header('Content-Type', 'text/html; charset=utf-8') for Python's basic http server.

Upvotes: 1

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