Can't see hebrew letters in chrome in a self made html document

Question

I'm trying to build an html document and for some reason Hebrew letters are not shown correctly. Instead, all I see are these question marks ��. I can see Hebrew letters in other websites. The html document is local, meaning I open it from my desktop. Any ideas? Thanks =)

I think that the question is duplicated [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7873290/hebrew-text-in-html-files](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7873290/hebrew-text-in-html-files) — Dlanor, May 12 '16 at 21:26

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered May 12 '16 at 21:24

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Try the HTML Charset Encoding: UTF-8. That way the browser will render it correctly.

<meta charset="utf-8">

Place that right after <head>

answered May 12 '16 at 21:24

Gregory R.

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 12 '16 at 23:45

You need to tell the browser that your content is utf-8 encoded. You can do that by adding one of the following meta tags to the head of your page:

<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />

Or

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

In HTML5, they are equivalent. Use the shorter one, it is easier to remember and type. Browser support is fine since it was designed for backwards compatibility.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 12 '16 at 21:38

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Ok, so I was reckless... I am working with Notepad++ and wasn't aware that the default encoding is ANSI. I changed it to UTF-8 and now it works fine. Thank you for your aid.

answered May 12 '16 at 21:38

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Can't see hebrew letters in chrome in a self made html document

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