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Asked: 2026-06-12T09:12:43+00:00

I have french accents in a meta tag’s content section. Example: <meta name=description content=à

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I have french accents in a meta tag’s content section. Example:

<meta name="description" content="à Québec référence" />

When I look at the page source I get:

<meta name="description" content="à Québec référence" />

I’ve tried using &agrave; Qu&eacute;bec r&eacute;f&eacute;rence but that’s how it is displayed in the content section.

I am using
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> and I don’t think this can change without messing up thousands of characters elsewhere in my project.

How do I get it to look like the first example, is there a php function to use? Thanks.

Also an explanation of why it gets translate to ‘à Québec référence’ would be nice.

UPDATE

I’ve figured out a solution. Programs like Aptana Studio and Notepad++ were saving the characters in a strange way. I used notepad to edit it and saved it with that and that seemed to solve the problem. Thanks for all your quick responses. Much appreciated. 🙂

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  1. Editorial Team

    You need to encode the file in the right form, download notepad++ and switch to the correct encoding for french.

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