[FX.php List] Strange encoding problem

[Dale Bengston]

Hi Bob,

Are the pages stored as files or are they stored in database fields?

Dale

On Sep 7, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Bob Patin wrote:

> I should mention that I tried changing the HEAD tag on the page to
> 
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
> 
> but that didn't fix it.
> 
> 
> On Sep 7, 2011, at 5:38 PM, Bob Patin wrote:
> 
>> I have a site that's been on the same web server for almost 6 years.
>> 
>> Basically, this client had a collection of thousands (actually 1.2 million) static HTML pages that he used on the web. I took their pages, developed a database to catalog them, and wrote a web app to display the pages.
>> 
>> Now, all of a sudden, we're getting text-encoding errors that weren't there just a while ago; instead of bullets or apostrophes we're getting broken image icons.
>> 
>> Is this a UTF-8 error, and if so, why all of a sudden is this happening on their pages, when the web server hasn't changed?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Bob Patin
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