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Slappy Griddleson
Slappy Griddleson

Reputation: 95

Question mark icons showing up for quotation marks when there's a UTF-8 character encoding

For some reason, after I add:

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

between my head tags, certain symbols (namely quotation marks) show up as diamond-shape icons with question marks in the middle, as if that symbol is not found. Anyone know what's up?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 9479

Answers (2)

Asaph
Asaph

Reputation: 162761

Are these regular quote characters (ASCII 34) or the dreaded "smart quotes"? They're probably smart quotes. This typically happens when programmers cut/paste content from a word processor document. I recommend changing them to regular quotes. Doing so doesn't impact the content. It'll just give you cleaner markup and avoid annoying encoding issues.

Upvotes: 1

user149341
user149341

Reputation:

Your text editor is saving your file, including the quotation marks, in some encoding that isn't UTF-8 (most likely CP1252). Convert the file to actually be UTF-8 and try again.

Upvotes: 3

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