How to display proper UTF-8 encoding?

Question

<html>
    <head>
        <title>тест</title>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

I have set the meta tag, but every time I open up the browser (Chrome), I have to go to Tools -> Encoding and set encoding on UTF-8 in order to make it work.

Is there a way to avoid this step so browser displays proper UTF-8?

Please post the URL of the page. This will let us see the HTTP headers. — Jukka K. Korpela
– Jukka K. Korpela, Commented May 9, 2012 at 18:20

Asaph · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-09 18:13:45Z

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Your web server is probably sending a Content-Type header with a different charset. This will take precedence over your <meta> tag. Confirm this on the command line using curl (*nix system required):

curl -i http://example.com/yourpage.php

Look at the http headers at the beginning of the response and find the Content-Type header.

You can remedy this in a couple of ways:

Configure your web server (I'm guessing Apache) to send the appropriate charset. See Apache docs for AddDefaultCharset.
Set the Content-Type header just in your script using the header() function. Like this:
```
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
```
But make sure to put this call before any other output to the browser or else PHP will choke.

edited May 9, 2012 at 18:13

answered May 9, 2012 at 18:01

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Saic Siquot · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-09 20:11:54Z

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The correct order is

<html>
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    <title>тест</title>

Also include before any other output on the php code, and even before the embedd html:

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

edited May 9, 2012 at 20:11

answered May 9, 2012 at 18:03

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Asaph Over a year ago

It's unlikely to make a difference. Although this is a good practice, modern browsers will tolerate any order.

allenski · Accepted Answer · 2021-02-18 10:08:44Z

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When you use a text editor to view your content try to see your enconding: If the file enconding is different use this PowerShell script to change your enconding to UTF-8. After that you need to upload again your files into teh web server.

Get-ChildItem *.php -Recurse | ForEach-Object {
$content = $_ | Get-Content

Set-Content -PassThru $_.Fullname $content -Encoding UTF8 -Force}

edited Feb 18, 2021 at 10:08

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