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how to display special characters correctly in the website - html

Answer 1

+1 A:

use this for character entity reference:

http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/reference/entity/

corroded 2010-09-02 12:48:05

Answer 2

+2 A:

Your pages header says that it's in UTF-8, but the contents has:

0001e40: 6e64 204c f673 756e 6765 6e20 696e 2053  nd L.sungen in S
0002080: 7375 6e67 656e 2c20 6469 6520 6e69 6368  sungen, die nich

f6 for one of the non-ASCII characters - the content is encoded in Latin1 (ISO-8859-1).

Either make the page report that it is in Latin1, of re-encode the content into UTF-8.

Douglas Leeder 2010-09-02 12:49:41

how do you re-encode into UTF-8?

tintincute 2010-09-02 12:50:23

@Douglas Leeder: shall I change this one? <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

tintincute 2010-09-02 12:52:36

Your editor should have a setting somewhere which controls the output encoding it will use. Without knowing more details of your setup I can't really tell you.

Douglas Leeder 2010-09-02 12:53:26

I'd recommend putting the content into UTF-8 rather than changing the headers - it's more likely to work on more people's machines.

Douglas Leeder 2010-09-02 12:54:34

If it's a JSP you can declare it in the page directive... like this: `<%@page contentType="text/html; charset=utf-8" pageEncoding="your local jsp file encoding"%>` the content type sets the output encoding. pageEncoding is optional but says the compiler that your code is in X enconding. Try first only with contenttype.

helios 2010-09-02 12:57:39

@helios:thanks for this,i'm not really sure if i do understand this but what i did i already change the special characters as suggested above.

tintincute 2010-09-02 13:20:36

Oh, ok. I've simply pointed where to look for change the encoding of the result page. (You know, the JSP compiles to a servlet that send the text over the wire encoded in what you specified...)

helios 2010-09-02 13:30:53

Answer 3

+1 A:

Try this Character Reference:

http://www.utexas.edu/learn/html/spchar.html

boss 2010-09-02 12:53:12

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