Hebrew text in HTML files

html character-encoding hebrew
Naftuli Kay picture Naftuli Kay · Oct 24, 2011 · Viewed 22.5k times · Source

I just did a pretty major typesetting session putting things in order for a specific prayer in Hebrew named Tikkun Haklali. It's here on jsfiddle.net. Unfortunately, when I tried to save the HTML and CSS to my computer, I get something like this:

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rather than something like this:

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What gives? Character encoding? If so, what should I save my text file in?

Answer

MarioRicalde picture MarioRicalde · Oct 24, 2011

HTML Charset Encoding: UTF-8. That way the browser will render it correctly.

<meta charset="utf-8">

Place that right after <head>

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