HTML odd symbols

Asked Jun 04 '15 at 08:26

Active Jun 04 '15 at 08:48

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I have home problem with the HTML symbols in a spanish web page what I am developing. The symbols are like � on my ñ and á, é, í, ó and ú.

I tried:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

Also:

<meta charset="UTF-8" />

And:

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

But nothing works. Thats how the webpage works:

I have an index.php which selects throught $_GET the layout.
Layouts are saved in .phtml
Then I include the selected file.

Everything works fine, except the charset codification, � symbols remain in the page. What could I do for changing it?

EDIT - I have read the solution proposed and gives no solution, I have done all that they are saying before (as I said at the begining), and I have no problems with MySQL codification.

edited Jun 04 '15 at 08:48

asked Jun 04 '15 at 08:26

Programador Adagal

Short answer: save and read the data in UTF-8. As I can see, you only read the data in UTF-8. Also, if those are static files, they might not be saved UTF-8 with no BOM. – machineaddict Jun 04 '15 at 08:54
Sorry, could't understand your answer. What you mean of saving and reading the data in UTF-8? – Programador Adagal Jun 04 '15 at 09:36
I meant the database write and read. – machineaddict Jun 04 '15 at 09:37
Oh, now I understand. No, I am talking about pure HTML, I am not getting that data from MySQL. – Programador Adagal Jun 04 '15 at 09:48
Then, as I said before, the problem is file encoding. Use an editor capable of changing encoding, like [Notepad++](https://notepad-plus-plus.org/) and change the encoding in UTF-8 with no BOM. – machineaddict Jun 04 '15 at 10:17
Thats my editing app, and UTF-8 with no BOM its the mode I have been using. – Programador Adagal Jun 04 '15 at 15:36
When you paste the text in the editor, the spanish symbols are displayed correctly? – machineaddict Jun 05 '15 at 07:43

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