Displaying degree symbol on webpage

Question

I have a program which extracts GPS coordinates from metadata and imports the results onto a database. I then display the data using PHP on a webpage.

My problem - I've recently created a new template but for whatever reason, it is no longer showing the degrees symbol '°' but a '�'.

I just find it strange that it works with one template, but not the other?

I've tried changing fonts, but had no luck

Solution 1

See DEGREE CHARACTER.

Specifically, HTML Entity: °.

Check that you have the proper docstring and character encoding in both templates to make sure they are correct.

Solution 2

You can use:

utf8_encode('YOUR TEXT');

utf8_encode converts the string data from the ISO-8859-1 encoding to UTF-8.

Solution 3

1. Save your PHP file with UTF-8 encoding.
2. Serve your PHP file with charset=UTF-8.
3. Add a META-tag in your HTML with charset=UTF-8.

This will solve (almost) all of your unicode character problems.

Comments

[Steven Mclaren]

Rygu - Thanks. Although this wasn't the way I corrected things, it did point me in the right direction. Deleting the line: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset="utf-8"/>