Encoding problem (uft-8)

  • tipsuli_

    (@tipsuli_)


    14 years, 5 months ago

    I have encoding problem with my site (http://mysticdiaries.net)

    Day before yesterday everything was fine, but now some characters shows incorrectly (ä,ö, etc) but only in some posts and sidebar.

    I haven’t made any changes to theme or settings (not that I remember), so where’s the problem and why it came out of nowhere?

    Can someone offer me some help, I really don’t know where the problem is.

    I have meta tag
    <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″ />

    and database is using also uft-8, so what can I do to fix this?

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  • kmessinger

    (@kmessinger)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    Validation shows this

    Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 4 it contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 (in other words, the bytes found are not valid values in the specified Character Encoding). Please check both the content of the file and the character encoding indication.

    The error was: utf8 “\xE4” does not map to Unicode

    Thread Starter tipsuli_

    (@tipsuli_)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    Ok, I have no idea what that means. My english sucks, so can you please tell me what to do? 🙂 In simple terms.

    tempor

    (@tempor)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    To answer your question, the “\xE4” that kmessinger is reffering to is the representation of a character which does not exist. (PHP is semantically like C).

    So when the identification for the encoding is taking place the unknown “\xE4” is telling the engine that this is a an unknown encoding.

    I checked the validation for your site but I haven’t received a: “The error was: utf8 “\xE4″ does not map to Unicode” error. A good start would be to experiment by going here.

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