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lisovaccaro
lisovaccaro

Reputation: 33956

Bad UTF-8 without BOM encoding

I converted all my files to UTF-8 without BOM encoding using Notepad++. I have no problem with BOMs anymore but the UTF without BOM encoding is simply not working, it's as if my site was encoded in ANSI. All special characters display either as: Â, Ú or á.

What can be the reason for this and how can I fix it?

http://chusmix.com/?ciudad=Pilar

Thanks

Upvotes: 5

Views: 15738

Answers (4)

SamT
SamT

Reputation: 10610

You have to tell the browser to accept it as UTF-8 so it will properly parse multibyte characters. Add this meta tag in your <head> tag with the rest of your metas:

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

Update

For HTML5, use this tag instead:

<meta charset="utf-8">

Upvotes: 6

Andr&#233; Caron
Andr&#233; Caron

Reputation: 45239

The HTML code doesn't contain any encoding, so the browser probably interprets it as ISO-LATIN, not UTF-8. Check out Setting the HTTP charset parameter at the W3 consortium.

Upvotes: 1

Yahia
Yahia

Reputation: 70369

you will need to tell your web server to tell the client that now everything is utf-8...

There are 2 options to do this:

  • HTTP header this is a setting of the web server itself Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

  • Meta tags this is something you could put into your html files header <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

see http://www.w3.org/International/O-HTTP-charset.en.php?changelang=en

you can check your site for problems regarding charset and other things here

Upvotes: 4

deceze
deceze

Reputation: 522016

Send a header informing the browser what character set a document is encoded in:

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');

Upvotes: 0

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