I have created web page using Chinese. When I view the page with Google chrome, all Chinese characters are corrupted. Do I have to add something in HTML page?
There are two ways to define the encoding of your page. You should include inside your <head> tags an encoding tag, two ways to do that follow below:
Short way:
<meta charset="utf-8">
Long way:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
You can have more details about the difference between these two ways in this question:
<meta charset="utf-8"> vs <meta http-equiv="Content-Type">
If you want to see a real example, take a look in the weibo.com source code at this line of code.
Make sure to use UTF-8 or a comparable encoding.
This can be made sure in the http headers:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
use utf-8 character set otherwise it will all be code
remember <meta charset="utf-8"
Ensure you are using the UTF-8 character set
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I am developing a website using html and css and i can't see greek letters.Instead of this,i only see symbols.
i have the following line in my html file:
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
I also tried:
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=windows-1253" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=ibm869" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=ibm737" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-7"/>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=x-mac-greek"/>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=x-EBCDIC-GreekModern "/>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=x-EBCDIC-Greek "/>
Nothing worked!
p.s. I tried this in Firefox and Internet Explorer
As per your comment
Open your file in Notepad, File -> Save As from the top menu, then there's a drop down in the save as dialogue where you can select character encoding. Make sure UTF-8 is chosen rather than ANSI
Once the file has been saved as UTF-8 then you should have no problems adding Greek letters, (or Russian, Hebrew, Japanese or whatever)
Per the comments / answers here, you'll need to check to see what the encoding is set to. Best way would be to see exactly how the server is sending it by inspecting the Response Headers. You can do this with Developer Tools on most browsers.
I just inspected the headers for this page using Chrome:
Make sure you check the file without the local server which many times that causes the problem. I had the same problem and opened the file from the browser directly and worked perfectly.
I had the same problem while developing a page in greek. The problem wasn't the utf-8. I had to correct the CSS.
Regards,
Nick
In my html document, I have my html as:
<html>
<head><title>title</title></head>
<body> <div>विजय कदम</div> </body>
</html>
I am getting output as:
विजय कदम
Any idea? what do I need to specify?
Save your file in UTF-8 encoding
Add meta tag to the html to support UTF-8
Make sure your server supports UTF-8 encoding, an example for Apache.
How to change the page encoding to UTF-8:
Add the following tag to the HTML:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
Or the HTML5 equivalent:
<meta charset="utf-8" />
for more information about characters encoding check this out.
You need an editor that saves in Unicode UTF-8.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
you can also use a converter to display hindi. link: http://vikku.info/indian-language-unicode-converter/hindi-unicode-converter.html what you do is, you paste html text. Hope this helps!
I have a website writteng in greek.
<meta name="keywords" content="" /> can I use greek language in content or just in english?
If I can write them using greek chars, do I have to add anything to meta tag?
Thank you
You can use any character you want from the character set you are using. Just make sure that your web server send the correct character set headers in the HTTP request. You may also add a <meta> element specifying the charset, but it's not strictly necessary.
I use UTF-8 in these examples as I think it's a code charset and prefer to use it myself. It's on its way to take over as the standard charset on the web.
HTTP header which should be sent by the web server:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Optional <meta> element for your document:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
I have a email template, that has French copy. If I load this email template up in IE I receive square boxes where the accented characters are. How can I combat this? I assume it is down to encoding?
Ensure the HTML template has the correct meta tag in the header for Content-Type.
You did not specify if the encoding is Latin1, UTF-8 or other - you need to find out first in order to use the right value.
Here is what a UTF-8 meta tag would look like:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
Just make sure that the actual encoding of the textfile (I assume it'll be either ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8) is in accordance with the meta tag defining the encoding in the beginning of the file. e.g.:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encodings_in_HTML
the page in question is Apple Amor
You can see that in the footer the spanish vowels seem to be showing properly , but in the slide down bar(header) they get messed up.
Any ideas why ?
Your page is encoded in ISO-8859-1. Wherever that header comes from, it is most likely encoded in UTF-8.
You would have to change the character set of your page to UTF-8 (that would probably have some consequences) or convert the incoming data from the header. I don't know where it's coming from, so it's hard to tell what the right method would be.
Mandatory basic reading on the issue: The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
Your page source shows that you're using:
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
Note that the above tag is not well formed. Where is its closing character "/"? Content-Type should be between double quotes.
Add this tag to your page and test:
<html lang="es">
If that doesn't solve your problem try to change the charset tag to:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />