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Weird symbols
I am using Windows 11 and Firefox 116.0.3. Some characters like ‘ ’ “ ” — become weird symbols in Firefox when I copy and paste text containing them to html source text file. This started happening earlier this month, never happened before. Why is this happening now?
Izabrano rješenje
Changed to UTF-8. Problem solved. Thank you for helping me! Visit my website:
Luis Gutierrez
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That are Unicode quotes (2018:2019:201c:201d:2014) and should show fine if you paste them in a document that supports Unicode (utf-8).
What do you get if you paste them ? Do you paste then in Firefox or in a external editor ?
Can you attach a screenshot?
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-create-screenshot-my-problem
- use a compressed image type like PNG or JPG to save the screenshot
Izmjenjeno
My HTML is rudimentary. I have a text file with a template that I use for all my web pages. When I insert text that contains letters with accents or characters like ‘ ’ “ ” — and save the filetype from.txt to .html, each of these words-symbols shows up as gibberish. For example, Gutiérrez shows up as Gutiérrez. This started happening earlier this month (8/8/24 to be exact) and had never happened before. Can you help me? This is my template: http://pelicanweb.org/web.page.template.txt
You get the eight-bit character representation instead of the Unicode character because you have "charset=ISO-8859-1", "Tools -> Page Info -> General" (Ctrl+I) shows: windows-1252.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
These days you should use Unicode (utf-8) like you can see on this forum page.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
See also:
Izmjenjeno
So, in my template, do I have to change this line
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
to this line
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
and do I have to do this for all my pages?
Odabrano rješenje
Changed to UTF-8. Problem solved. Thank you for helping me! Visit my website:
Luis Gutierrez