Why does the Â character show on my HTML page?

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I am coding a website that has information about temperature. I put the degrees symbol (the tiny circle) but now when my page loads, I get Â? Is there anyway to fix this?

Found the answer. I had copied and pasted the degrees symbol straight into Sublime Text. What I should have done was used ° . — ikhaliq15, Jun 05 '16 at 23:28
I believe you can post your comment as the answer to help people that stumble upon this. Not everybody reads the comments under the question. They read the answer first. — El'Magnifico, Jun 05 '16 at 23:31
You should have a read of [_The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)_](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html), it will help you understand things like this. In this case your HTML file was in UTF-8 encoding, but you were viewing it as (probably) ISO-8859-1. — matt, Jun 06 '16 at 12:10

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

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Sometimes despite using HTML symbols your browser might render them weird. Check here for a better explanation.

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answered Jun 05 '16 at 23:31

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Please consider explaining what could be happening instead of just posting a link. Links have a habit of breaking or moving. – kylieCatt Jun 05 '16 at 23:35

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 05 '16 at 23:34

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I found the answer myself. Here it is.

I had copied and pasted the degrees symbol straight into Sublime Text. What I should have done was used ° .

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answered Jun 05 '16 at 23:32

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 06 '16 at 11:22

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You need to use ° as it will render as the degrees symbol.

So let's say you want to write 25°C, you can write:

25°C

answered Jun 06 '16 at 11:22

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Why does the Â character show on my HTML page?

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