Remove wierd characters in xml output

Question

I\'m trying to remove weird characters in xml output. Here\'s the code and output:

It seems there are encoding issues. I have tried adding and this a convert from

Answer 1

Your HTML document is incomplete. You are missing the entire head tag, which should have a content type meta tag that specifies the content and encoding. Right now the browser has to guess what the encoding is, and guesses wrong.

A correct HTML document has a head tag with a title tag, that's where you add the meta tag: