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Text not encoded properly

In my masterpage, I have the following in the header.

This allows me to put special characters into my website. The problem is that when javascript tries to load (on the client) special characters, I get that weird box.

Example url...

http://89.184.149.229/Sandportal/vinnan/trol-lna/monica-sakk--vikuskiftinum

Text is below the 4 stars (mid left).

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Solution

  • The most common cause to that problem is that, although you declare your page as Latin1-encoded (ISO-8859-1), the file itself is not (eg. it might be encoded in Win-CP-1512 by default if you're on Windows).

    Please ensure that all your files are properly encoded. Tools such as Notepad++ on Windows can help you spot this problem.