I have a seemingly simple problem.
I wrote a couple of html files and wanted to run them on a localhost server. There's just one issue: They contain special characters encoded in utf-8, and my localhost wouldn't show them as what they should be, rather as some weird characters like "ü". I then spent hours searching the internet for solutions, however, none of them worked. Here's what other platforms suggested and I tried (yet didn't help anything):
in php.ini set values the following way:
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default_charset = "utf-8"
internal_encoding = "utf-8"
input_encoding = "utf-8"
output_encoding = "utf-8"
in my.ini uncommented the following code:
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init-connect=\'SET NAMES utf8\'
collation_server=utf8_unicode_ci
character_set_server=utf8
skip-character-set-client-handshake
character_sets-dir="C:/xampp/mysql/share/charsets"
in httpd.conf added:
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AddDefaultCharset utf-8
and of course double-checked the encoding of my html files, and just to be sure added meta-tags.
Yet, after all of this, even with all of them together, the server still decides to use "ü" instead of "ä". Is there anything else I could try? Or, perhaps, did I do something wrong in my previous attempts? Thanks in advance for helping me.