Getting strange letters or text additions when publishing the copyright symbol

Getting strange letters or text additions when publishing the copyright symbol. Also when I write - it’s - it changes completely. In elements it’s fine, even in Safari it shows okay only after publishing and downloaded at the server it’s wrong.

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My guess - it’s the font… what font are you using?

No, that’s a character encoding problem, not a font problem. It looks like multi-byte UTF-8 characters (i.e. the copyright symbol and a smart quote) that are rendering correctly in Elements and Safari in preview, but not when published.

If the server is Apache try adding the following to your .htaccess file:

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

If not Apache consult the documentation for an equivalent setting.

Thank you!

And now for my next question ; where do I find it?

I know I have seen it in the past but right now cannot find it.

Ps. sorry for the late response but its was already to late when I got the emails.

You create the file in text edit and name extension from .txt to .htaccess

Include that line above:

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

Then you put the file on your server - in the base folder

Thank you!

Welcome :hugs: thank AndyG

Sorry AndyG forgot to thank you.

Thanks!

in the end it needed a little more.

AddCharset utf-8 .html .css .php .txt .js .htm

now it works fine!