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.
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I use notepad++ for coding.
I have a test.php file which is encoded with UTF-8 without boom. I have set the charset in the head as
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
However, if I open the file in a browser special characters like "äüö" are not represented correctly. If I go to pageinformation in firefox I get
Coding: windwos-1252
Content-Type text/html; charset=utf-8
Why is the coding wrong? How can I change it?
You should use notepad.exe which comes with windows and click SAVE AS option and change encoding there to utf-8 instead of ANSI. Save it and check.
I had similar issues.
Hope this helped
what about utf-8 without bom?
It happens with certain text editors. Try notepad++ or similar ones.
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.
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 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.
When I save in an editor (Notepad++) an HTML file as "utf-8" encoded the meta tag charset (=ISO-8859-2) seems to be ignored by browser (charset is always set to "utf-8", not matter which encoding i have set in meta tag)
What's more interesting when i save this doc as "ANSI" encoded file changing tag charset works...
Can You please explain me such a behaviour?
You can use META. Like this:
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
</head>
"UTF-8" in Notepad++ really means "UTF-8 with BOM". The leading BOM very likely triggers UTF-8, regardless of what anything else is saying, since no other document should start with that particular byte sequence. Try saving as "UTF-8 without BOM" to see the difference.