How can I fix character encoding issue in HTML?

Question

I have a web page, and if I open it in Windows Notepad, a piece of text looks like this:

Avertissement sur la sécurité

But if I open it in Notepad++, it looks like:

Notepad++ also says the file is in UTF-8 encoding too.

If I open it in a browser, it looks like

I have

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> on top too.

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

You have to make sure the encoding on <meta> is the same like the file encoding (on Notepad++).

You want to use UTF-8?

• On Notepad++ select Encoding -> UTF-8 (without BOM) and save the file.
• Use <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

You want to use ISO-8859-15?

• On Notepad++ select Encoding -> ISO-8859-15 and save the file.
• Use <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-15">