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Asked: 2026-05-27T08:14:06+00:00

I moved my website from my local test server to NameCheap shared hosting and

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I moved my website from my local test server to NameCheap shared hosting and now I’m running into a problem – some of the pages aren’t displaying utf-8 special characters properly (showing question marks instead). All pages are utf-8 encoded, as are all database tables. The strange thing is, some pages display correctly and some don’t, in a seemingly random pattern.

For instance, my index page is fine, but my profile page isn’t. faq.html works fine, but when I rename it to faq.php it doesn’t. And weirdest of all, I have a page with two JQuery tabs where one displays correctly and the other doesn’t!

Can someone help me out with this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    This is really annoying problem to fix but you can try these.

    First of all, make sure the file is actually saved in UTF-8 format.

    Then check that you have <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"> in your HTML header.

    You can also try calling header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); at the beginning of your PHP script or adding AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 to your .htaccess file.

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