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is showing on my page instead of     I have the Content-Type set to UTF-8 in both my  lt head gt  tag and my HTTP headers    lt meta http-equiv  Content-Type  content  text html  charset UTF-8    gt      In addition  my browser is set to Unicode  UTF-8      So what s the problem  and how can I fix it

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Ensure the browser and editor are using UTF-8 encoding instead of ISO-8859-1 Windows-1252   Or use  amp rsquo

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If your content type is already UTF8   then it is likely the data is already arriving in the wrong encoding  If you are getting the data from a database  make sure the database connection uses UTF-8    If this is data from a file  make sure the file is encoded correctly as UTF-8  You can usually set this in the  Save as     Dialog of the editor of your choice   If the data is already broken when you view it in the source file  chances are that it used to be a UTF-8 file but was saved in the wrong encoding somewhere along the way

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In DBeaver  or other editors  the script file you re working can prompt to save as UTF8 and that will change the char             into                                            or

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The same thing happened to me with the       character  long minus sign   I used this simple replace so resolve it   htmlText   htmlText Replace         -

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You have a mismatch in your character encoding  your string is encoded in one encoding  UTF-8  and whatever is interpreting this page is using another  say ASCII    Always specify your encoding in your http headers and make sure this matches your framework s definition of encoding   Sample http header   Content-Type    text html  charset utf-8   Setting encoding in asp net     lt configuration gt     lt system web gt       lt globalization       fileEncoding  utf-8        requestEncoding  utf-8        responseEncoding  utf-8        culture  en-US        uiCulture  de-DE        gt     lt  system web gt   lt  configuration gt    Setting encoding in jsp

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You must have copy paste text from Word Document  Word document use Smart Quotes  You can replace it with Special Character   amp rsquo   or simply type in your HTML editor       I m sure this will solve your problem

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This sometimes happens when a string is converted from Windows-1252 to UTF-8 twice   We had this in a Zend PHP MySQL application where characters like that were appearing in the database  probably due to the MySQL connection not specifying the correct character set  We had to    Ensure Zend and PHP were communicating with the database in UTF-8  was not by default  Repair the broken characters with several SQL queries like this     UPDATE MyTable SET  MyField1   CONVERT CAST CONVERT MyField1 USING latin1  AS BINARY  USING utf8   MyField2   CONVERT CAST CONVERT MyField2 USING latin1  AS BINARY  USING utf8     Do this for as many tables columns as necessary    You can also fix some of these strings in PHP if necessary  Note that because characters have been encoded twice  we actually need to do a reverse conversion from UTF-8 back to Windows-1252  which confused me at first   mb convert encoding              Windows-1252    UTF-8          returns

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Unicode codepoint U 2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK  is encoded in UTF-8 as bytes   0xE2 0x80 0x99             Unicode codepoints U 00E2 U 20AC U 2122  is encoded in UTF-8 as bytes   0xC3 0xA2  nbsp  0xE2 0x82 0xAC  nbsp  0xE2 0x84 0xA2   These are the bytes your browser is actually receiving in order to produce          when processed as UTF-8   That means that your source data is going through two charset conversions before being sent to the browser    The source     character  U 2019  is first encoded as UTF-8 bytes   0xE2 0x80 0x99 those individual bytes were then being mis-interpreted and decoded to Unicode codepoints U 00E2 U 20AC U 2122 by one of the Windows-125X charsets  1252  1254  1256  and 1258 all map 0xE2 0x80 0x99 to U 00E2 U 20AC U 2122   and then those codepoints are being encoded as UTF-8 bytes   0xE2 -  U 00E2 -  0xC3 0xA2 0x80 -  U 20AC -  0xE2 0x82 0xAC 0x99 -  U 2122 -  0xE2 0x84 0xA2   You need to find where the extra conversion in step 2 is being performed and remove it

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If someone gets this error on WordPress website  you need to change wp-config db charset    define  DB CHARSET    utf8mb4 unicode ci      instead of   define  DB CHARSET    utf8mb4

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So what s the problem   It s a      RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK - U 2019  character which is being decoded as CP-1252 instead of UTF-8  If you check the encodings table  then you see that this character is in UTF-8 composed of bytes 0xE2  0x80 and 0x99  If you check the CP-1252 code page layout  then you ll see that each of those bytes stand for the individual characters         and        and how can I fix it   Use UTF-8 instead of CP-1252 to read  write  store  and display the characters    I have the Content-Type set to UTF-8 in both my  lt head gt  tag and my HTTP headers   lt meta http-equiv  quot Content-Type quot  content  quot text html  charset UTF-8 quot    gt    This only instructs the client which encoding to use to interpret and display the characters  This doesn t instruct your own program which encoding to use to read  write  store  and display the characters in  The exact answer depends on the server side platform   database   programming language used  Do note that the one set in HTTP response header has precedence over the HTML meta tag  The HTML meta tag would only be used when the page is opened from local disk file system instead of from HTTP    In addition  my browser is set to Unicode  UTF-8    This only forces the client which encoding to use to interpret and display the characters  But the actual problem is that you re already sending           encoded in UTF-8  to the client instead of      The client is correctly displaying          using the UTF-8 encoding  If the client was misinstructed to use  for example ISO-8859-1  you would likely have seen              instead    I am using ASP NET 2 0 with a database   This is most likely where your problem lies  You need to verify with an independent database tool what the data looks like  If the     character is there  then you aren t connecting to the database correctly  You need to tell the database connector to use UTF-8  If your database contains           then it s your database that s messed up  Most probably the tables aren t configured to use UTF-8  Instead  they use the database s default encoding  which varies depending on the configuration  If this is your issue  then usually just altering the table to use UTF-8 is sufficient  If your database doesn t support that  you ll need to recreate the tables  It is good practice to set the encoding of the table when you create it  You re most likely using SQL Server  but here is some MySQL code  copied from this article   CREATE DATABASE db name CHARACTER SET utf8  CREATE TABLE tbl name       CHARACTER SET utf8   If your table is however already UTF-8  then you need to take a step back  Who or what put the data there  That s where the problem is  One example would be HTML form submitted values which are incorrectly encoded decoded   Here are some more links to learn more about the problem   The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely  Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets  No Excuses    from our own Joel  Unicode - How to get the characters right   with more concise and practical information  solutions are targeted on Java environments  How to setup your PHP site to use UTF8  targeted on PHP environments

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I have some documents where     was showing as         and    was showing as        This is how it got there  python code      Adam edits original file using windows-1252 windows     x85 xea     that is HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS  LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX    Beth reads it correctly as windows-1252 and writes it as utf-8 utf8   windows decode  windows-1252   encode  utf-8   print utf8     Charlie reads it  incorrectly  as windows-1252 writes a twingled utf-8 version twingled   utf8 decode  windows-1252   encode  utf-8   print twingled     detwingle by reading as utf-8 and writing as windows-1252  it s really utf-8  detwingled   twingled decode  utf-8   encode  windows-1252    assert utf8  detwingled   To fix the problem  I used python code like this   with open  dirty html   rb   as f      dt   f read   ct   dt decode  utf8   encode  windows-1252   with open  clean html   wb   as g      g write ct     Because someone had inserted the twingled version into a correct UTF-8 document  I actually had to extract only the twingled part  detwingle it and insert it back in  I used BeautifulSoup for this    It is far more likely that you have a Charlie in content creation than that the web server configuration is wrong   You can also force your web browser to twingle the page by selecting windows-1252 encoding for a utf-8 document   Your web browser cannot detwingle the document that Charlie saved   Note  the same problem can happen with any other single-byte code page  e g  latin-1  instead of windows-1252

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