Trying to learn to make a site. And right from the start:
How do I get HTML to display ščž and other various special characters like ł,ß,ö..?
You need to specify a character set so the browser knows what's being used in the page. For example, in your head section, try putting:-
<meta charset="UTF-8">
You can also try specifying symbols using their entity name/code, using the character reference table here - https://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/charref
Here's an HTML5 example. meta declares the encoding of the HTML file. Make sure to save the file in that encoding!
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Example</title>
</head>
<body>How do I get HTML to display ščž and other various special characters like ł,ß,ö,马..?</body>
</html>
You can enter any character you know the Unicode codepoint using &#xnnnn syntax. In the example above, U+9A6C is the Chinese character for horse(马).
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Is there a concise way to scan an html script for entities it is unfamiliar with and import them with their html codes? All I'm getting in place of a 'degree celsius' character, for example, is a question mark.
I think your problem is that you're not declaring character encoding. What you need to do is this:
In your <head> element, insert the following code:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1">
Reference from MDN
Reference from W3Schools
Below is the sample HTML I have written to understand about meta charset tag.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<HEAD>
<meta charset="ANSI" />
</head>
<body>
如
</body>
</html>
The BODY tag of this HTML contains chinese character.
Because chareset is set to "ANSI" , I was expecting that the chinese character will not be displayed in the browser, instead some junk character will get displayed.
I would like to know why chinese character is getting displayed correctly, even though charset is "ANSI" instead of UTF-8.
"ANSI" is not a valid value for charset.
A browser may also ignore the <meta> tag if:
the HTTP Content-Type header tells it otherwise;
there is a BOM at the beginning of the HTML; or
the browser does not think the page is in the named charset (see this process for determining a page's character encoding).
At the beginning of my page, I have the following code:
<HTML>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>
//other
I used the meta because I have to put in my website some Japanese characters. Here you can see an example:
<tr>
<td><label class="blacktd" onmouseover="apriimg('imgbox', '4');"> Shy Guy Bazaar </label></td>
<td>2'03"007</td>
<td>そうめん</td> //look at here
<td><img src="http://mk7vrlist.altervista.org/flags/jp.gif" /></td>
<td>2013/06/30</td>
</tr>
I googled this and I saw that I simply need to put that tag with the charset attribute. By the way my webpage shows %u305D%u3046%u3081%u3093 instead of "そうめん". Do you know why?
Because either:
You have an HTTP header which specifies a different character encoding (HTTP headers take priority over meta elements) or
You haven't saved the document using UTF-8 (you are just telling the browser that you are)
Is your doctype HTML5
<!DOCTYPE html>
if not you have to use this for all other doctypes
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
Thanks to all answerers, but I have had troubles solving it, as I saved the file in two editors (Leafpad and vim) as UTF-8, still getting weird characters in browser. The culprit was, as described here, the byte order mark, which seems not to be set by default in both the editors but has to be set explicitly in vim:
:set bomb
This solved the problem for me finally.
One way to specify the encoding of an HTML document is by sending the appropriate headers. However, a fallback approach is to declare the encoding inline via a meta tag. For example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Foo bar</title>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello, world!</p>
</body>
</html>
But to read the document and determine the encoding, must one not already know the encoding?
As long as no non-ASCII characters appear before that <meta> tag, the browser can assume that it's ASCII or UTF8, and it will read correctly until that point.
This is why that <meta> tag should be before the <title>.
If it's UTF16, the browser can figure that out by trying to read characters like <.
I have Html (hello.html) like bellow
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<div>
¿Hola cómo está?
</div>
</body>
</html>
It shows out as "¿Hola cómo está?" when run in browser
Is there any solution to get correct out put without altering the
hello.html file?
I hope that, it is in Spanish language but i looking for any other solution like as change the encode type or font in browser or editor.
Edit: Just noticed the requirement. But some Spanish characters require Unicode and you have to declare that in your html file.
Put this in your head.
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
I don't see whats wrong, if you are refering to the font type in the html and the webpage is different is because of your editor, if you really want to change the font you will need to set the font tag around your text or even better define it in the CSS
Based on the clarification in the comment section to your question....
If you are using Google Chrome, and your computer is set to an English locale, load the page, then right click on the body, and select "Translate to English."
Sounds like an interview trick question, rather than a programming one.
No.
You cannot do this without altering the html file.
Place this <meta> tag in your Head Section
<meta charset="UTF-8">