Unable to Display the Correct Special Character

stannwl · **Unable to Display the Correct Special Character -** 05-19-2012, 08:29 AM

Hi All,

I'm writing some text on my website and using this special character " ' ". When i upload the file with text, this special character is being converted to 2 square while viewing the website.

Is there anyway i can get the correct special correct up on the website?

Regards
Stanley

d3iti · 05-19-2012, 09:00 AM

hello,
You should look into the head section of your page that type of character encoding you're using.

For example, encoding 000webhost this forum is iso-8859-1:

HTML Code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />

stannwl · 11:23 AM

Hi d3iti,

I don't get what you mean. I'm not sure what encoding or stuff as i'm just learning to built a website.

Below is the link to my website. Let me know how to check the encoding or if you can see and tell me from my code.

http://www.stannwl.site90.net

Thanks

Stanley

[30 minutes later]

I've manage to find the code to replace the special character. This special character is actually a reserve character, hence need a code as a replacement.

Just a question, is there any other faster way to use these reserve character?

d3iti · 05-19-2012, 11:23 AM

You can try changing the beginning of your website:

HTML Code:

<header>
		<meta charset="utf-8">
		<title> Website Trial </title>
		<!-- Google Web Fonts for the demo -->
		<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Carter+One' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
		<!-- Basic Jquery Slider styles (This is the only essential css file) -->
		<link rel="stylesheet" href="contact_styles.css">
    </header>

For the following code:

HTML Code:

<head>
		<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
		<title> Website Trial </title>
		<!-- Google Web Fonts for the demo -->
		<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Carter+One' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
		<!-- Basic Jquery Slider styles (This is the only essential css file) -->
		<link rel="stylesheet" href="contact_styles.css">
    </head>

I have used the label <head> instead of <header>.
I have also put the correct line to encode your HTML code to use UTF-8.

stannwl · 05-21-2012, 01:01 PM

Hi d3iti,

Thanks for the edited code. The reserved character is able to display correctly now