Php echo html code and dots

Question

I want to echo html code with dots:

echo '<li>…</li>' . "\n";

But I get

<li>���</li>

How can I solve this problem?

What you want is called a "horizontal ellipsis". It is best to use the entity code: `…` — Tigger, Jul 22 '17 at 10:05

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 22 '17 at 10:07

Looks like an encoding problem. You should consider to declare your html in utf8 :

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <meta charset="UTF-8">
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

and make sure your file is utf8 encoded.

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 22 '17 at 10:09

Because that's unicode:

Add

<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> for HTML 4.01 & below
<meta charset="UTF-8"> for HTML5

Or execute

header("content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8");

Or of course just do

echo '<li>...</li>' . "\n";

With normal full stops.

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