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
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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">
I have set my coding on website using <meta charset="Utf-8"> I have it right written, so if there is a mistake, it is not in my website. Now.. It does not work. I think it is because of website coding is set by "windows-1208" or something like that. But I can not find out how to fix this, because is defined by my computer... any ideas?
<meta charset="Utf-8"> tells the browser to display the page in UTF-8. But if you used an other encoding in your editor (e.g. windows-1208 or so) and saved your html page in that encoding, the page won't be displayed correctly.
Make sure, you saved your file in the same encoding as you declared in the meta tag.
To fix it, open the html document in e.g. Notepad++, choose in the menu «Encoding» «Encode in UTF-8 without BOM»
Something that made me curious - supposedly the default character encoding in HTML5 is UTF-8. However if I have a plain simple HTML file with an HTML5 doctype like the code below, I get:
"hello" in Russian: "ЗдраÑтвуйте"
In Chrome 33+, Safari 6, IE11, etc.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<p>"hello" in Russian is "здраствуйте"</p>
</body>
</html>
What gives? Shouldn't the browser utilize the UTF-8 unicode standard and display the text correctly? I'm using Coda which is set to save html files with UTF-8 encoding by default so that's not the problem.
The text data in the example is UTF-8 encoded text misinterpreted as window-1252 encoded. The reason is that the encoding has not been specified and browsers are forced to make a guess. To fix this, specify the encoding; see the W3C page Character encodings. Two simple ways that work independently of server settings, as long as the server does not send wrong encoding information in HTTP headers:
1) Save the file as UTF-8 with BOM (there is probably an option for this in your authoring program.
2) Add the following tag into the head part:
<meta charset=utf-8>
There is no single default encoding specified for HTML5. On the contrary, browsers are expected to make guesses when no encoding has been declared. This is a fairly complex process, described in 8.2.2.2 Determining the character encoding.
If you want to be sure which charset will be used by browser you must have in your page head
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
otherwise you are at the mercy of local settings and browser automation.
When I type Korean in my html code and open it through my browser, Korean is not recognized by the browser and prints some weird words. What shall I do?
There must be few mistakes you are making.
First, You should have a doctype specified on your HTML page. Use HTML5 doctype
<!DOCTYPE html>
Second, you should specify the character encoding of the document as well. So, add:
<meta charset="utf-8" />
In your head section. Or for a longer version with better cross browser compatibility use:
<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=utf-8'>
Also as Juhana said, your file must be saved with same encoding (i.e. Unicode UTF-8) to be able to store Unicode characters and display them.
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.