I converted all my files to UTF-8 without BOM encoding using Notepad++. I have no problem with BOMs anymore but the UTF without BOM encoding is simply not working, it's as if my site was encoded in ANSI. All special characters display either as: Â, Ú or á.
What can be the reason for this and how can I fix it?
http://chusmix.com/?ciudad=Pilar
Thanks
You have to tell the browser to accept it as UTF-8 so it will properly parse multibyte characters. Add this meta tag in your <head> tag with the rest of your metas:
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
Update
For HTML5, use this tag instead:
<meta charset="utf-8">
you will need to tell your web server to tell the client that now everything is utf-8...
There are 2 options to do this:
HTTP header this is a setting of the web server itself
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8Meta tags this is something you could put into your html files header
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
see http://www.w3.org/International/O-HTTP-charset.en.php?changelang=en
you can check your site for problems regarding charset and other things here
The HTML code doesn't contain any encoding, so the browser probably interprets it as ISO-LATIN, not UTF-8. Check out Setting the HTTP charset parameter at the W3 consortium.
Send a header informing the browser what character set a document is encoded in:
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7102935/bad-utf-8-without-bom-encoding