Question

I am trying to echo some special character like the “micro” symbol and the “squared” symbol however whenever I do this on the page it comes up with this symbol?

�

These are ASCII chars I am using, perhaps I need UNICODE-8?

Thanks for your time!

Answer 1

Based on your question specification (read: the stuff you didn’t specify) your problem is in the encoding.

If your using PHP, then add Header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8"); to top of your code OR (even better:) to your core file (if your using some CMS type method.)

So browser would understand, what encoding your using add <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> to your html/template file.

Also make sure that your full mysql (if your using one) is in UTF-8 and make sure to add this to your mysql-macros class mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8");.