[FX.php List] Strange encoding problem

[Bob Patin]

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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