How to force ASP.NET MVC to read .cshtml files as UTF-8?

Question

When rendering a view, I encounter a problem with encoding, i.e. unicode characters are displayed incorrectly.

According to an answer to an unrelated question:

If you experience encoding problems with the output, try saving your view .aspx files as 'Unicode UTF-8 with signature'.

Indeed, my views were saved as UTF-8 without signature; saving them as UTF-8 with signature solves the problem.

Is there a way to specify to ASP.NET MVC that it should use UTF-8 every time, in order to be able to use UTF-8 without signature for the newly stored views?

score 30 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 15 '17 at 15:33

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Try:

<system.web>
    <globalization fileEncoding="utf-8" />
</system.web>

Don't forget to save your source file in UTF-8 as well.

edited Sep 15 '17 at 15:33

Jeremy W. Sherman

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 21 '13 at 16:58

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I believe encoding is not the responsibility of MVC, rather IIS. Do you have this line in your web.config?

<globalization requestEncoding="utf-8" responseEncoding="utf-8" />

answered Nov 21 '13 at 16:58

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The problem occurs before IIS, since the encoding is already wrong in the HTML string I generate from the view. – Arseni Mourzenko Nov 21 '13 at 18:33

How to force ASP.NET MVC to read .cshtml files as UTF-8?

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