utf-8 special characters not displaying

Question

I moved my website from my local test server to NameCheap shared hosting and now I\'m running into a problem - some of the pages aren\'t displaying utf-8 special characters

Answer 1

The problem is because your file are not with the same encoding. First run the following command in all your files:

file -i filename.* 

In order to fix the problem you have to change all your files to uft-8. You can do it with the command iconv:

iconv -f fromcode -t tocode filename > newfilename

Example:

iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 index.html > fixed/index.html

After this you can run file -i fixedx/index.html and you will see that your file is now in uft-8