htmlnewbie23 Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 (edited) I have a series of html files that I created long ago using ISO-8859-1. I need to change them to UTF-8 character encoding. I have 2 questions:1. How do I do that? 2. The files include the meta line that statescharset=ISO-8859-1 Does this need to be changed manually or will it automatically be changed to UTF-8? (I currently use the Arachnophilia html editor). Thank you. Edited May 22, 2013 by htmlnewbie23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newseed Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 More than likely you will need to change it manually. The preferred character encoding is utf-8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htmlnewbie23 Posted May 22, 2013 Author Share Posted May 22, 2013 (edited) More than likely you will need to change it manually. The preferred character encoding is utf-8.Is it enough to change the meta line stating the encoding in the html code or does something else need to happen? Edited May 22, 2013 by htmlnewbie23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingolme Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 Your HTML editor should save the file itself as UTF-8. The <meta> tag is just there to tell the browser what encoding was used to save the file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htmlnewbie23 Posted May 23, 2013 Author Share Posted May 23, 2013 Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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