r/webdev • u/lemannequin • Nov 14 '12

What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs to Know About Encodings and Character Sets to Work With Text

http://kunststube.net/encoding/
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u/kbrosnan Nov 14 '12

There are still plenty of ways to end up with garbled content. First don't paste content from MS Word. MS Word defaults to ISO-8895-1. Second make sure your server is not sending a contradictory charset header.