{"id":434,"date":"2009-01-15T14:04:16","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T19:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=434"},"modified":"2009-01-15T15:53:49","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T20:53:49","slug":"utf8-page-encoding-and-what-it-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2009\/utf8-page-encoding-and-what-it-does\/","title":{"rendered":"UTF8 Page Encoding and what it does."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever loaded up a web page and found funny looking symbols in your text where there should just be normal text? Take a look at this screen capture:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/utf8-error.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"utf8-error\" width=\"403\" height=\"242\" class=\"no-wrap\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Those funky symbols are appearing because you are using symbols (in your web page) that fall outside the normal character space range &#8230; you need to tell your browser you want to use international symbols. <\/p>\n<p>To do this, you need to add the UTF8 meta tag:<\/p>\n<p>&lt;meta http-equiv=&#8221;Content-Type&#8221; content=&#8221;text\/html; charset=utf-8&#8243;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>And this is what you will get:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"504\" height=\"195\" src=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/utf8-no-error.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"utf8-no-error\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/utf8-no-error.png 504w, https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/utf8-no-error-300x116.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hope that helps.<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Mischook<\/p>\n<p>www.killersites.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, Have you ever loaded up a web page and found funny looking symbols in your text where there should just be normal text? Take a look at this screen capture: Those funky symbols are appearing because you are using symbols (in your web page) that fall outside the normal character space range &#8230; you &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}