I'm just trying to create a new ASP.NET MVC 5 project with Visual Studio 2017. The files created by VS are encoded in UTF8 but without BOM.
After creating the new project using the VS template, if I just add one special character to one page and run the project, the character is not displayed correctly by my browsers. é looks like é for example.
I used to develop with VS2013, and the files were encoded in UTF8 with BOM.
I made some search and I saw that's a good thing to remove the BOM from file as it's seems to be unnecessary.
I read that I should add <meta charset="utf-8" /> (html5) or <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> (previous versions of html) to tell to the browser that the content of the page is UTF-8, but these tags are already present in the layout of the template website created by VS, but it's still not working.
Do I miss something?
Does a charset "utf8-without-bom" exists?
