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Paul Dessert
Paul Dessert

Reputation: 6389

Quickly getting rid of �

I'm copying html from an old website to a new one. I'm getting a bunch of issues like this:

City�s

The apostrophe is obviously wrong.

I know when, copying text from Microsoft Word, you need to strip all the garbage by pasting everything into notepad then copying the stripped version to your site. Is there a way to do this so I can quickly reformat all the pages that need to be moved?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 105

Answers (1)

Zeta
Zeta

Reputation: 105876

Did you change the encoding of your website? Maybe you had something like <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"> and didn't include this <meta> tag into your new site.

There are many encoding possibilities (ISO-8859-1, UTF-8, Windows-1250 and several others...) so you have to choose the correct one for your site. General it's a good decision to use UTF-8 without BOM, since almost every browser understands UTF-8 and many text editors (e.g. Notepad++, VIM) provide a command to convert ANSI or ISO-8859-1 documents into UTF-8.

Upvotes: 2

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