Question

I have some .html with the font defined as:

<font color="white" face="Arial">

I have no other style applied to my

tag. In it, when I display data like:

<b> “Software” </b>

or

<b>“Software”</b>

they both display characters I do not want in the UIWebView. It looks like this on a black background:

How do I avoid that? If I don’t use font face="arial", it works fine.

Answer 1

This is an encoding issue. Make sure you use the same encoding everywhere. UTF8 is probably the best choice.

You can put a line

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

in your html to tell UIWebView about the encoding.

To be precise, “ is what you get when you take the UTF-8 encoding of “, and interpret it as ISO-8859-1. So your data is encoded in UTF-8, which is good, and you just need to set the content type to UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-1 (e.g. using the <meta> tag above)