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Asked: 2026-05-31T12:15:16+00:00

My "em dash" character is shown differently on two servers. When I visit Server

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My "em dash" character is shown differently on two servers.

When I visit Server 1: –

When I visit Server 2: â€"Â

I’m not using any database connection, just pure HTML.

Following are the first 4 lines of my HTML file:

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

Please help me here, I can’t see what’s wrong with it.

-solution-

Like suggested below I replaced my dash with

&#8211;

To make the server display my ►-character correctly I had to place a .htaccess in the folder with the following line of code:

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

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  1. Editorial Team

    It’s possible they’re being served with different encodings. In UTF-8, you can just include the m-dash directly (—), but if the page is being served as ASCII, it needs to be encoded as &mdash;. Take a look at the source and see which one it uses.

    I think this is what’s happening, because “—” is multiple bytes long, so it would be interpreted as multiple ASCII characters.

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