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What is happening to the following HTML snippet when opened in Chrome?:

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Attached is a summary of the annual financial report for Company A’s retirement Plan

plans.

When open this page in Chrome and view source I see:

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Attached is a summary of the annual financial report for Company A’s retirement Plan

plans.

Notice the replacement of

’

with

’

I know this is some character encoding issue but my google search reveal little.

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Thanks in part to both @deceze and this SO question it looks like I just need this meta tag at the top of the HTML file:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
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    Or the much shorter and easier to remember <meta charset='utf-8'> (if you are writing HTML5 documents). See this other SO question.
    – Chris
    Commented Jun 28, 2013 at 13:14
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    You should actually rather be setting the Content-Type HTTP header, which takes precedence.
    – deceze ♦
    Commented Jun 28, 2013 at 13:26
  • Found this one valuable. Thanks! Gave it a +1.
    – joatd
    Commented Apr 13, 2023 at 0:45

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