European Characters are not displayed

Question

I have some issues with displaying European characters

Here is my Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="de">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Image2Food - 
Sag mir, was ich daraus kochen kann - Index
</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0">
</head>
<body>
<div id="nav">
<?php
require("nav.php")
?>
</div>
<div id="content">
<h1>Image2Food - Sag mir, was ich daraus kochen kann</h1>
<h2>Das soziale, multimediale Netzwerk für Kochideen</h2>

On Main page the letter "ü", "ä" and "ö" are diplayed as "?". I can not explain why.

Possible duplicate of [UTF-8 all the way through](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/279170/utf-8-all-the-way-through) — Jocelyn, Jun 28 '16 at 22:29
All the information you need is already given by the link I posted. — Jocelyn, Jun 28 '16 at 22:51
Why would you tag `PHP` for something that's clearly pure `HTML`? Just because you include some php file doesn't mean your question has anything to do with it.. — icecub, Jun 28 '16 at 23:05

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 29 '16 at 04:14

In your document you are declaring the UTF-8 character encoding (good idea). For this to work the editor/viewer you are using to edit the file must also be in UTF-8 mode.

If, for example, your editor was in "ANSI" (latin-1 or CP1252) mode, then they would look fine in your editor, but when the browser, in UTF-8 mode, tries to interpret those bytes they will look like invalid byte sequences.

If your editor does not support UTF-8 mode or this is not practical for some reason, use numeric character entities. For example, ü is ü. You can use this tool to convert. Paste the sentence into the top box, and then press convert above the box, then look into the box that says "Hex NCRs".

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 28 '16 at 23:03

Try this:

it looks like you using German language in your some part of html I would suggest you to add below tag where ever you would like to use German language.

<blockquote lang="de">


</blockquote>

for example :

<!DOCTYPE html>
    <html lang="de">
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    <title>Image2Food - 
    Sag mir, was ich daraus kochen kann - Index
    </title>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0">
    </head>
    <body>
    <div id="nav">
    <?php
    require("nav.php")
    ?>
    </div>
    <div id="content">
    <blockquote lang="de">
    <h1>Image2Food - Sag mir, was ich daraus kochen kann</h1>
    <h2>Das soziale, multimediale Netzwerk für Kochideen</h2>
    </blockquote>

Thank you for your Suggestion, but it doesn't work this way – Marco Jun 29 '16 at 06:57 — Marco, Jun 29 '16 at 06:57

score -1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 29 '16 at 08:03

I solved it this way:

<?php
/**
* Festlegung der Untergrenze für die PHP-Version
*@version: 1.0
*/
if (0 > version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5')) {
die('<h1>Für diese Anwendung '.
'ist mindestens PHP 5 notwendig</h1>');
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
 <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html" />
<title>Image2Food - 
Sag mir, was ich daraus kochen kann - Index
</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0">
</head>
<body>
<div id="nav">
<?php
require("nav.php")
?>
</div>
<div id="content">
<?php

European Characters are not displayed

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