David Ruppert

*Nerd alert: this post concerns only the slightest percentage of dorks out there. If your eyes start to glaze over at terms like charset, move along. There’s nothing for you to see here.  Heavy nerdery is about to ensue.

I was having the toughest time simply copy and pasting international characters from an existing live site to my new locally run site. No matter what I did, the characters would not display correctly . . in my text editor, or browser.

My charset for the page was already set to utf-8:

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

Finally, I came across a site that will convert those tricky characters in to their numerical values, solving my problem.

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I’m saving it here for future use.

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