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Asked: 2026-06-05T14:28:52+00:00

I have a page http://199.193.248.80/test/test.php that contains the « character. But when I read

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I have a page http://199.193.248.80/test/test.php that contains the « character.

But when I read this page with js on http://199.193.248.80/test/test.html, the character turns into �

Both pages are using Charset Windows-1252 so I have no idea why it works on one page but not the other. What needs to be done to fix this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    This is probably because PHP sets a different character set (when serving the .php) in the headers than Apache does (when serving the .html). Browsers use the character set that’s mentioned in the response headers; it overrides the <meta> tags in fact.

    By default PHP chooses iso-8859-1 I believe, but you can override the character set in PHP by using:

    header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252');

    Or change the php.ini for a global change.

    See also:

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