Encoding special characters (accent) about i18next

[gregor-tusar]

This happend to me when I created a file in Visual Studio. The translations on page had � inside.
I opened the same file with Visual Studio Code, I saw the � chars there also. I replaced the texts and saved a file which solved my issue. It seems that the Visual Studio is messing with encoding.

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[jamuhl]

as i use a lot of german special chars (ä, ö + ü,...) not sure where the problem is.

• try <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> in the header of the html
• assert resource file comes with utf-8 encoded

[AlexandroMtzG]

@jamuhl 3,967 days later, but I love you

[fredericrous]

I started to develop using i18next few weeks ago. For now I just have fr/en translations and I've got no problems with accents.
As jamuhl said, try to change your header meta tag. I use pretty much the same he gave you : <meta charset="UTF-8">

[Jeelig]

Thank you for your responses, I've tried what jamuhl said, but I did'nt managed to do it.
Here is my page :
http://m0si.com/lang/index.html?setLng=fr-FR
I can send you the sources if you need to see but I still have problem with accents

[jamuhl]

What do you use on serverside to serve the json files? For me it seems like there's the problem as their content already has the unknown char �.

[Jeelig]

Here is the content of the json file (ns.special.json) :
{
"app": {
"title": "Le titré",
"content": "Voici chère frère mon contenu...",
"footer": "Pied de page"
}
}

[Jeelig]

in the "locales/fr-FR" folder

[jamuhl]

i meant...your server is serving the json files in wrong encoding. Might be configuration issue in apache or whatever you use as webserver.

[Jeelig]

how can I change it, and where? please

[jamuhl]

if your using apache this might help you:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/913869/how-to-change-the-default-encoding-to-utf-8-for-server

[jamuhl]

closing this...you might try to find answer at stackoverflow

[boycce]

In regards to this, if you are using a text editor make sure you set the encoding also to UTF-8. This was my problem 🌎

[jamuhl]

@toxinhead good catch...i always forget there are editors that save in non utf-8 formats by default. how fast one forgets. thanks a lot for pointing to this solution.

[PhaedrusTheGreek]

I had the same problem, with the same solution. . I copied and pasted the text from translation.json into another file and resaved it, and it was fine. Originally I edited the file in eclipse, but i switched to notepad++