Please see the code below
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<div>
¿Hola cómo está?
</div>
</body>
</html>
In this code, i want to print the characters properly as given in the file. 1 solution is to save the file in UTF-8 format. Is there any other way of doing it?
Saving the file as UTF-8 is insufficient. You should also signal the HTTP client (browser) that it's a UTF-8 document.
This can be done in two ways:
By forcing the server to send appropriate headers - this usually means you must have the ability to at least somewhat alter the server's configuration.
Insert <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> into <head> element.
To your original question, the encoding of the PHP file can be different - you'll just have to re-encode the string from the local encoding to UTF-8 before you send it.
Use HTML symbols such as £ for example.
http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm
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I have used the following code in my head tag.
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Admin Panel</title>
</head>
I have characters of other language which is supported by UTF-8 encoding in my web page. But when i save my html file it showed me error The document's current encoding can not correctly save all of the characters within the document. You may want to change to UTF-8 or an encoding that supports the special characters in this document.
I have already using UTF-8. How to fix this?
You are not using UTF-8. You have just included some markup which tells the browser you are using UTF-8.
That error message sounds like it is coming from your editor. You need to configure your editor to save in UTF-8.
I just validated an HTML document using the W3C validator, and found that if I use:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
with:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
It throws a warning Line 4, Column 72: Using windows-1252 instead of the declared encoding iso-8859-1.
However, it is fixed if I use:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
I don't really understand what is happening. Also, I don't even know how to use the DOCTYPE tag, I just copied and pasted one from around the web.
Why does this happen?
How should I use the DOCTYPE tag?
Changing the DOCTYPE is simply turning off the warning - it isn't actually fixing anything.
iso-8859-1 and windows-1252 are very similar encodings. They differ only in the characters associated with the 32 byte values from 0x80 to 0x9F, which in iso-8859-1 are mapped to control characters and in windows-1252 are mapped to some useful characters such as the Euro symbol.
The control characters are useless in HTML, and web authors often mistakenly declare iso-8859-1 and yet use one or more of those 32 values as if they were using windows-1252, so browsers when they see the iso-8859-1 charset being declared will automatically change this to be windows-1252.
The validator is simply warning you that this will happen. If you're not using any of the 32 byte values, then you can simply ignore the warning - it's not an error. If you are, and you genuinely want the iso-8859-1 interpretation of the byte values and not the windows-1252 interpretation, you are doing something wrong.
Again, this switching happens in browsers for any DOCTYPE, it's just that the HTML5 validator is being more helpful about what it is telling you than the HTML4 validator is.
A couple of points:
Any HTML5 validation should be taken with a grain of salt. The specification is still under active development, and not everything is set in stone.
You're using the HTML4 syntax for that meta tag. Try <meta charset="iso-8859-1">
That said, HTML validators don't serve that much purpose in this day and age.
But apparently the default for HTML4 was iso=8869-1. That said, the default charset for HTML5 is UTF-8.
More information about the HTML5 doctype can be found in this post by John Resig.
It throws a warning Line 4, Column 72: Using windows-1252 instead of the declared encoding iso-8859-1.
It means the file was saved with the encoding Windows-1252 on creation (AKA Western Windows 1252 or CP1252) and your charset declaration says "hey read this file with ISO 8859-1" when that's not the encoding the file has.
The meta charset exist for that reason. It exist to declare the encoding of the file you are sending/reading/using so when, for example a browser, reads the document it knows what encoding the file is using.
In detail, you have this charset declared:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
But the file you are validating is actually encoded in Windows-1252. How? Why? Check the text editor you are using and what encoding it is using to save files. If the editor can be configured to change the encoding, choose the one you want to use.
About HTML5
Using
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
or
<meta charset="iso-8859-1">
are both valid for HTML5. See <meta charset="utf-8"> vs <meta http-equiv="Content-Type">
The W3C validator offers options for which encoding the validator uses. You have specified encoding in your document, so you should see "Encoding: iso-8859-1" in the top block of information once the validator has been run.
To the right of that, there is a pull-down menu. Change the choice from "(detect automatically)" to "iso-8859-1 (Western European)". The validator will then use ISO 8859-1 instead of its own choice, and you will not receive the error.
Do the following:
ISO 8859-15. Yeah, -15, and it will work.
Don't place too much stock in the validators. There are typically too many Internet Explorer workarounds, particularly in the CSS content, that will trip up the validator. If your pages work in all browsers and your client is happy, it doesn't matter what some validator says.
If you are specifying the HTML5 doctype, then you should be consistent with the meta charset attribute. Try this though for your pages:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Lets say I have the following file in called index in the directory D:\Experimental:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" >
<head>
<title>Minimal XHTML 1.1 Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is a minimal XHTML 1.1 document.</p>
</body>
</html>
If I open the link
file:///D:/experimental/index.html
I get to see the html, but it seems that the character encoding defaults to Western (ISO-8859-1), I can see this when I click view -> character encoding in firefox.
I want to display this in UTF-8 because Western (ISO-8859-1) doesn't display some characters correctly. Does anyone know how to fix this?
You should include:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
in your HEAD element.
Edit
I've just tried your example in Firefox on the Mac, and even without the meta tag, it correctly interprets the document as UTF-8. The Standard seems to indicate that it should use the XML processing instruction, but that you should also use the correct HTTP headers. Since you're not sending headers (because you're not using HTTP) you can specify them with the meta tag.
Maybe try adding
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
in <head> section?
When loading files from disk, your browser does not have an HTTP Content-Type header to read the encoding from, so it guesses. To guess the document encoding it uses your operative systems current encoding, the actual bytes that are in the files and information inside the file itself.
As Jonathan wrote, you can add a
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
element that will help the browser using the correct content type. Anyway, note that that element will often be ignored by browsers if your document is sent from a misconfigured HTTP server that explicitly specifies another encoding the Content-Type header.
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.