ù,é it turns in to �

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I have a french website, the below is my header.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">

I am trying to put these charactors ù,é it turns in to �

Please tell me why?

Thank you.

You may want to have a look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8356187/utf-8-special-characters-not-displaying — T. Junghans, Feb 13 '12 at 10:20

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 13 '12 at 10:19

I am trying to put these charactors ù,é it turns in to �

That is a pretty certain indicator that the text you output is not UTF-8 encoded as you say in the header. My guess would be it's ISO-8859-1 encoded.

This can be because

The HTML file you are editing isn't UTF-8 encoded. Save it as UTF-8 - the option for that is often in the "Save As..." dialog of your editor or IDE.
The database connection you are getting the text from isn't UTF-8 encoded.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 17 '13 at 13:43

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You can use the following code in head section

<meta http-equiv="encoding" content="text/html" />

I think it will works for you.

answered Apr 17 '13 at 13:43

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 13 '12 at 10:21

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You need to save the html file as UTF-8 format. Also you can add an attribute lang="fr" to your html tag.

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

edited Feb 13 '12 at 10:21

Arafangion

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answered Feb 13 '12 at 10:19

defau1t

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ù,é it turns in to �

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