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"’" Showing On Page Instead Of " ' "

Answer : So what's the problem, It's a ’ ( RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK - U+2019) character which is being decoded as CP-1252 instead of UTF-8. If you check the encodings table, then you see that this character is in UTF-8 composed of bytes 0xE2 , 0x80 and 0x99 . If you check the CP-1252 code page layout, then you'll see that each of those bytes stand for the individual characters â , € and ™ . and how can I fix it? Use UTF-8 instead of CP-1252 to read, write, store, and display the characters. I have the Content-Type set to UTF-8 in both my <head> tag and my HTTP headers: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> This only instructs the client which encoding to use to interpret and display the characters. This doesn't instruct your own program which encoding to use to read, write, store, and display the characters in. The exact answer depends on the server side platform / database / progra...
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ASCII Vs Unicode + UTF-8

Answer : In modern times, ASCII is now a subset of UTF-8, not its own scheme. UTF-8 is backwards compatible with ASCII. Yes, except that UTF-8 is an encoding scheme. Other encoding schemes include UTF-16 (with two different byte orders) and UTF-32. (For some confusion, a UTF-16 scheme is called “Unicode” in Microsoft software.) And, to be exact, the American National Standard that defines ASCII specifies a collection of characters and their coding as 7-bit quantities, without specifying a particular transfer encoding in terms of bytes. In the past, it was used in different ways, e.g. so that five ASCII characters were packed into one 36-bit storage unit or so that 8-bit bytes used the extra bytes for checking purposes (parity bit) or for transfer control. But nowadays ASCII is used so that one ASCII character is encoded as one 8-bit byte with the first bit set to zero. This is the de facto standard encoding scheme and implied in a large number of specifications, but strictly s...
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