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Asked: 2026-05-11T05:23:05+00:00

I have a problem with character encoding in some HTML pages. It seems that

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I have a problem with character encoding in some HTML pages. It seems that the cause of the problem is that some of the .html files are not saved as UTF-8 encoded files. Even though I have instructed Eclipse to save these files as UTF-8, when I open them in a browser, it indicates that the files are ISO-8859-1.

How can I change the encoding of these files to UTF-8?

UPDATE: I already have the following included in the section of each webpage

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

I am using the Apache web server.

Thanks, Donal

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  1. You may need to change the content type header that your web server sends the client.

    Edit: While this did work for this particular situation, using a tool to change the file encoding as suggested by other posters may be a better solution in other situations. YMMV.

    Instructions for saving as UTF-8 in Eclipse (which I realize you already have):

    You should probably change the Default Encoding in your workspace for the HTML document.

    This is for Eclipse 3.4. If you have a different version, this may be slightly different.

    Goto Window->Preferences
    In the Preferences window goto General->Content Types
    At this point, you can specify a ‘Default Encoding’ for files near the bottom of the preferences window. Expand ‘Text’ and select HTML. In the ‘Default Encoding’ entry, put UTF-8. Then click ‘update’ at the right.

    After this, all HTML files should be saved in UTF-8 format.

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