utf-8 special characters not displaying

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I moved my website from my local test server to NameCheap shared hosting and now I m running into a problem - some of the pages aren t displaying utf-8 special characters properly  showing question marks instead   All pages are utf-8 encoded  as are all database tables  The strange thing is  some pages display correctly and some don t  in a seemingly random pattern   For instance  my index page is fine  but my profile page isn t  faq html works fine  but when I rename it to faq php it doesn t  And weirdest of all  I have a page with two JQuery tabs where one displays correctly and the other doesn t   Can someone help me out with this

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set meta tag in head as     lt meta http-equiv  Content-Type  content  text html  charset ISO-8859-1    gt     use the link http   www i18nqa com debug utf8-debug html to replace the symbols character you want   then use str replace like       find   array                                                                                                                    en dash                          replace   array                                                                           content   str replace  find   replace   content     Its the method i use and help alot  Thanks

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If you re using PHP and none of the above worked  as it was my case   you need to set the locale with utf-8 encoding   Like this  setlocale LC ALL   fr CA utf-8

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The problem is because your file are not with the same encoding   First run the following command in all your files    file -i filename      In order to fix the problem you have to change all your files to uft-8  You can do it with the command iconv   iconv -f fromcode -t tocode filename  gt  newfilename   Example   iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 index html  gt  fixed index html   After this you can run file -i fixedx index html and you will see that your file is now in uft-8

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I solve my issue by using utf8 encode         str    kam          echo utf8 encode  str     Hope this help someone

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It sounds like that if you request faq html the webserver signals your browser that the file is in UTF-8 encoding   Check that with your browser which encoding is announced and used  please see the documentation of your browser how to do that  Every browser has this  most often accessible via the menu  to specify your preference which website s encoding should be used  and to see what the server returned  you often find this in page properties   Then it sounds like that if you request faq php the webserver singals your browser that the file is in some other encoding  Probably no charset encoding is given as per default PHP configuration setting  As it s a PHP file you can most often solve this by changing the PHP configuration default charsetDocs directive   default charset    UTF-8    Locate your php ini on the host and edit it accordingly   If you don t have the php ini available  you can change this by code as well by using the ini setDocs function   ini set  default charset    UTF-8      Take care that you change this very early in your script because PHP needs to be able to send out headers to have this working  and headers can t be set any longer if they have already been send   Manually sending the Content-Type header-line does work  too   header  Content-Type  text html  charset UTF-8      Additionally it s good practice that all the HTML pages you output have this header as well in their HTML  lt head gt  section    lt html gt     lt head gt               lt meta http-equiv  Content-Type  content  text html charset UTF-8  gt            Hope this is helpful

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If all the other answers didn t work for you  try disabling HTTP input encoding translation   This is a setting related to PHP extension mbstring  This was the problem in my case  This setting was enabled by default in my server

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Adding the following line in the head tag fixed my issue     lt meta http-equiv  Content-Type  content  text html  charset UTF-8  gt

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This is really annoying problem to fix but you can try these   First of all  make sure the file is actually saved in UTF-8 format   Then check that you have  lt meta http-equiv  Content-Type  content  text html charset UTF-8  gt  in your HTML header   You can also try calling header  Content-Type  text html  charset utf-8    at the beginning of your PHP script or adding AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 to your  htaccess file

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