thehigherentity Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 strange symbols appearing This is a problem i have never come across before and I'm stumped to why I am now getting this? I use scream on ubuntu when building websites (but i get the same problem when using a text editor too), I have never had a problem until the last few days I have noticed any £ signs i enter seem to display with a strange a like symbols (Â) before them. Has anyone else had this problem? or can someone point me in the right direction to fixing it? As far as I'm aware i haven't changed any settings that could of done this. thanks for any help anyone can give me... Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/48199-solved-strange-symbols-appearing-like-%C3%A2%C2%A3/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadTechie Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 Yep try had it in a database try switching to 'utf8_general_ci' encoding Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/48199-solved-strange-symbols-appearing-like-%C3%A2%C2%A3/#findComment-235614 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehigherentity Posted April 23, 2007 Author Share Posted April 23, 2007 Thanks for that, I have checked the settings on scream and found they where already set to Unicode (UTF- so, I believe thats ok... However, I am getting the same problem even when i write a page in my text editor so it could be a system setting I'm missing somewhere that could be overiding it (God knows where though). Thanks for your help and if anyone has any ideas I would be very happy to here them. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/48199-solved-strange-symbols-appearing-like-%C3%A2%C2%A3/#findComment-235644 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehigherentity Posted April 23, 2007 Author Share Posted April 23, 2007 Just so anyone else with this problem knows how i fixed it (eventualy) After changing the following in my HTML header the problem disapeared <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> to <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/48199-solved-strange-symbols-appearing-like-%C3%A2%C2%A3/#findComment-235692 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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