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Asked: 2026-06-08T15:24:26+00:00

I have a page with the following meta tag: <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=UTF-8 />

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I have a page with the following meta tag:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

I thought this would set the default character set to UTF-8 and indeed it appears to in Chrome and Safari, but not in Firefox.

I have a PHP script on the page which generates a playlist of audio files for jPlayer, and filenames with accents in characters aren’t working/playing in Firefox.

Here is the error message I am seeing in the Firebug console:

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As you can see the characters in the filename aren’t getting read correctly. The filename should be “Guessi-Guéré-Guessi (Pop Bariba)”

When I then look for more detail on the error, under the “Headers” tab I see this:

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Which shows that the charset is iso-8859-1. Then in the “Response” tab I see:

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Which confirms the error, but this time with the correct encoding showing. The file definitely exists, and as I say it plays/works in other browsers.

So I am presuming the issue is to do with the response headers getting set differently in Firefox, and overriding the meta tag. I have checked the response headers in Chrome, and they are indeed set to UTF-8. What can I do to fix this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    It turns out that there was an issue with the Flash fallback in jPlayer. Firefox uses Flash to play the mp3.

    Here’s the fix from the developer of jPlayer:

    Use the encodeURI(url) JavaScript command to encode the URL in JavaScript before passing the url to setMedia. For example:

    $ ("#id").jPlayer("setMedia", {
   mp3: encodeURI("http://domain.com/audio/大地書房.mp3")
});
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