Question

This is my dynamic title and meta description update code;

$titlecek=mysql_query("SELECT bahisisim,bahisiaciklama,URL FROM bahis WHERE id='$bahisid'");
$titlecekx=mysql_fetch_array($titlecek);
echo "<title>" . mb_strtolower($titlecekx[0],'UTF-8') . "</title>";
echo '<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="' . mb_strtolower($titlecekx[1],'UTF-8') . '">';

But when I try to share my page at Facebook it looks like;

http://666kb.com/i/c6st3ke4u4hqaem42.gif

By the way its HTML codes are like these at output;

<title>bu bahise gelen evet says tek say olacak</title><META NAME="Description" CONTENT="bu bahise 2 gün içerisinde gelen evet oyu sayısı tek sayı olacak. (ilkokullu editi: 2'nin katları çift sayıdır, 0 çift sayıdır)">

How can I solve this issue?

Answer 1

Make sure that you tell what character encoding the site uses. Without that, even if you correctly output the values in UTF-8 format, the consumer (in this case Facebook) will not know what encoding to use when reading your data.

One way to do that is using this:

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

In HTML5, you can also say:

<meta charset="UTF-8" />