I have an HTML file in web-inf folder with Unicode characters. But when I run it, unrecognizable characters are shown in the browser, how do I get the Unicode characters shown when I run it?
I tried <parameter-encoding default-charset="UTF-8"/> but it didn't work, what could be the solution?
Add meta tag in head
<meta charset="UTF-8">
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It's in a php-file that renders html. I understand that it's an text-encoding-problem. I currently use utf-8. The text is rendered as a regular p-tag in the html. I also use
<meta charset="utf-8">
In my head-tag
Check the encoding of the file itself (open using NotePad++ or some other editor with encoding options, and choose Encoding-> UTF8 without BOM)
make sure you have <! DOCTYPE html> on the star of the HTML's output
I wrote html page that displays mixed hebrew/english content.It works fine with charset "windows - 1255"
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html dir="rtl" lang="he">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1255">
,But I figured that people will have trouble if their machines doesn't support hebrew. I changed the charset to utf-8 and got
HTML:
meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"
View:
"��� ��� ������, ��� ����� �����, �� ������ ���� ��� ���� �� ������"
Read zohar ��� ����
....
Isn't utf-8 suppose to support more chars then windows 1255?
I guess when you changed the tag, you didn't tell your editor to convert the file to UTF-8. So, the file is still in Windows-1255 format, but the browser tries to read it as if it was UTF-8, so you get bad/unreadable characters.
I have no idea which editor you're using, so i can't tell you how to put it in UTF-8 mode. Try to find a setting in your options regarding the character set to use. Or, open the file in Windows notepad, and when saving it, make sure you select "Codepage: UTF-8" from the drop down box next to the save button.
Relation to Unicode
The Unicode Hebrew block (U+0590–U+05FF) follows Windows-1255 by encoding both letters and vowel-points in the same relative positions as Windows-1255. Unicode goes further in encoding cantillation marks in lower positions. Unicode Hebrew is always in logical order.
For modern applications UTF-8 or UTF-16 is a preferred encoding.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1255
It seems to me that your encoding should still work if your characters are within the Unicode Hebrew block.
I'm working on my first phonegap application, an android based simple form app.
My problem is that all my non-latin characters appear unreadable.
I added the content meta tag with utf-8, made sure I saved the file as utf-8, made sure to use font with the needed letters and also added xml:lang to the decleration.
Couldn't find any other idea, because i'm a web dev and this usually solves these issues...
Maybe someone has any idea?
feels like my questions back when I just started web development :)
Thanks!
Just add meta:
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
If you are using Eclipse, which is default for the PhoneGap Android, make sure you applied the utf-8 text file encoding. (Project - Properties - Resource: Text File Encoding - Other [UTF-8]).
The meta tag should also be in your index.html
<head>
<meta charset=utf-8>
...
</head>
sometime it happens from visual studio page Unicode setting: for this go to file > advance save options > select Unicode utf 8 with signature and then click ok.
I've got a problem with html encoding. I work on PSPad. I set utf-8 as charset in my files and utf-8 as a file format and it look fine on localhost but doesn't on a server.
When i change file format to iso it works on a server but doesn't on localhost and when i close PSPad and reopen the file it totaly breaks some of the characters.
Do u have any solution? It so annoying! :)
thanks
K.
Make sure that the foreign server sends a charset declaration as well. What server software do you use? In Apache you could achieve it by adding a .htaccess file with the following content:
AddCharset utf-8 .html
Also make sure that you add a
<meta charset="utf-8">
declaration (HTML5) or a
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
To the HTML file header.
Edit: corrected typos
I have a Unicode problem... I´ve done this before but for now, I cannot understand
why the Icelandic letters don´t show up - I have those question marks again
Here is the url (very plain and short html5)
http://nicejob.is/new/
Everything I Google says: use the <meta charset="utf-8"> as I do.
Any suggestions?
Your page is already viewed as UTF-8. But your source code is not saved as UTF-8.
Please change the encoding of your source code file to UTF-8.
Not all browsers support HTML5-way tags yet
here you can see table of compability
Try this instead:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
I can see a couple of issues.
The META should look like this:
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
The <html> specified lang="en" which might be prone to confusing some browsers.
When I view the HTML from the browser, the question marks are encoded as 0xEF 0xBF 0xBD, which is the UTF-8 encoding for the byte order mark or BOM, aka U+FEFF. So, for whatever reason, the HTML is not transmitted as sensible UTF-8 (though it does seem to be valid UTF-8).
Probably you are using some text editor like notepad++,
and you didn't set up encoding to UTF-8 in that text editor.
What you have to do is to save the file with utf-8 encoding by using Notepad (the attached one with Windows).
Steps:
Save as ..
In the below options ... you will find encoding option choose UTF-8 ...
And save the file ...
Then add the line <meta charset="UTF-8" /> inside your file ...
And it will work.