€ symbol rendering as €2

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 开发者_JAVA技巧on the linux server and out on the web in html, it looks like this in some browsers:

€2

can anyone suggest a solution

Set the charset in the headers or a <META> element to UTF-8 so that it isn't processed as CP1250.

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 !

If you are viewing your text (.txt) file as a text and not HTML in browsers window, setting

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

will not do the job as you are dealing with text file,

so tags will not be "hidden", plus it may potentially (even most likely) send garbage to mysql database you are trying to populate (e.g. by auto-harvesting posted online file).

So, if in browser window instead of:

€ 123.39

you are seeing

€2 123.39

problem is not with quality of your text file, but with the way browser handles encoding.

If you need to copy and paste displayed file and "€2" is in the way,
try simply setting your browser default encoding to unicode (UTF-8).

In FF you want to do it here:

Tools-> Options-> Content (tab)-> Fonts&Colors-> Advanced-> Default Char. Encoding

Once there select UTF-8 encoding.

Remember thou that sometimes page reload may not be enough to see changes, due to browser cache. In such case, restart your browser.