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Tagged with meta-tags character-encoding
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Content in meta tag
Like the first image, the meta tag is displayed correctly in inspect elements mode but incorrectly displayed in view page source mode as in the second image. Thank you for suggesting a solution to ...
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Avoid http-equiv <meta> tags [duplicate]
can be avoid
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
and replace this by <meta charset="utf-8">
and what is the best replacement for <meta http-equiv="x-...
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Do old browsers recognizes HTML5 charset format?
I read lots of information on the web, and couldn't find the answer of this quistion. If I use
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
will the coding be applied correctly in browsers that don't support HTML5?...
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Preserve charset attribute of meta tag in HTML Blob?
I am generating a client-side HTML redirect like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Déjà vu - Wikipedia</title>
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Content/Character Encoding - Why Does HTTP Header(Content-Type) Take Precedence Over Meta Tags(Http-Equiv)?
I have been studying content encoding for some time now, but I'm still learning.
My understanding is, the content/character encoding decides how a web browser renders characters outside of the normal ...
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<meta charset=“utf-8”> or <meta http-equiv=“Content-Type”>, which should I use?
In order to define charset for HTML 5 doctype, which notation should I use?
Short:
meta charset="utf-8"
Long:
meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"
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How can I set charset in HTML? [duplicate]
I'm having a trouble with a site. I set the charset to Unicode, but it still won't work. Here there is sample code of how I set it:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//...
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Can I use HTML character entities in meta tags?
I have a web site in two languages - English and Chinese. In the English homepage, which uses UTF-8 charset, I have, e.g.:
<meta name="description" content="Available in English and Chinese">
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Browser display german language character issue
my issue is i am displaying german language character and my browser convert some character in question mark symbol.
I have added image here you can see what is exact issue.
I have tried meta tag ...
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Some of the encoding of hyphen(-) showing the result – and some are showing correct on same page(DB used is Sql server 2008)
I have 2 servers :-
server 1 - shows the correct result for the hyphen(-)
server 2 - showing – character for some hyphen(-) only
I am using the meta tag with charset UTF-8
All the values are ...
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After trying to fix the weird characters that appear on my webpage, why does the <meta> tag seem to prevent javascript from working?
I looked up how to prevent weird characters like: 
 appearing where
<br>
is in the html.
<meta charset="UTF-8">
was the answer. However, now that i have put this in, all my jquery/...
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UTF-8 encoded text erroneously displayed in Firefox
The following document is saved as UTF-8 without bom:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
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Overriding Meta Character Encoding Declarations
I know that declaring the charset of a page using the older style, like so:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
will override any declarations of the ...
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In a HTML file with charset=utf-8, do I still need to replace umlauts with ä?
Whenever I used a German umlaut in a HTML file in the past, always I replaced it by ä, ö etc. according to this table.
I had no idea about encoding then, nor did I ever think about ...
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meta tag to correct ®
I'm having some trouble getting a special character properly encoded.
® keeps coming through instead of the registered trademark symbol. I've tried changing the meta tag to UTF-8 and Windows-1252, ...
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