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I have set page encoding to UTF-8 in HTML:
meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=UTF-8"
and in HTTP header, I have:
Content-Type text/html; charset=UTF-8
Why isn't the é shown correctly?
Update:
The data containing the é is crawled from the Internet; the crawler is written in Microsoft .Net.
I used MySQL .Net Connector to connect MySQL.
The page to display the é is written in PHP.
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French Characters in HTML Documents - UTF-8 Encoding. This section provides a tutorial example on how enter and use French characters in HTML documents using Unicode UTF-8 encoding. The HTML document should include a meta tag with charset=utf-8 and be stored in UTF-8 format.
UTF-8 is a standard for representing Unicode numbers in computer files. Symbols with a Unicode number from 0 to 127 are represented exactly the same as in ASCII, using one 8-bit byte. This includes all Latin alphabet letters without accents.
UTF-8 is a variable-width Unicode encoding that encodes each valid Unicode code point using one to four 8-bit bytes. UTF-8 has many desirable properties, including that it is backwards compatible with ASCII, often provides a more compact representation of Unicode data than UTF-16, and is endianness independent.
make sure your file does not have a BOM (byte order mark) at its beginning. i had this problem recently, and even though the file was saved as utf8 (checked several times), the BOM confused firefox and it wrongly displayed umlauts (i had html <meta> tags set to the correct encoding and http headers)
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You need to add much more information, but a � is usually a sign for a ISO-8859-1 character in data that is treated as UTF-8.
It comes either from
The source file claiming to be UTF-8, but actually being saved as ISO-8859-1/Windows-8252 - check your file encoding in your editor or IDE
A database connection that uses ISO-8859-1 even though the database tables are UTF-8
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The most likely explanation is that the page is not encoded using UTF-8, so when the browser tries to decode the text, it is doing so using the wrong encoding.
You need to make sure that the actual document encoding matches the claimed encoding
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