Help - Character encoding issue

Mr. Loverman · 2012-04-20 11:38:58

Hi all This is probably a silly question but it is doing my head in. Example: In my database I have the following text: Our client – A prominent However when I display this text on a webpage it displays as follows: Our client � A prominent The webpage uses the following character type: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"…

20-04-2012 12:38PM

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Mr. Loverman

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Hi all

This is probably a silly question but it is doing my head in.

Example:

In my database I have the following text:
Our client – A prominent

However when I display this text on a webpage it displays as follows:
Our client � A prominent

The webpage uses the following character type:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

Can you think of any reason why the "–" is not displaying correctly?

Any advice appreciated.

Cheers

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#2 20-04-2012 01:15PM
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Try this:
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-10646-utf-1">

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#3 20-04-2012 07:49PM

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How is the database encoded?

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