Question

Unusual problem here: I have an app that uses a text file which contains a few ‘€’ symbols as well as other text in a text file to populate a mysql database. When rendered locally, the € symbol looks fine, but on the linux server and out on the web in html, it looks like this in some browsers:

€2

can anyone suggest a solution

Answer 1

Use an UTF-8 encoding type on your file and make sure you add a content-type meta tag to your page:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

Hope this helps !