UTF-8 encoding does not work properly with Internet Explorer, but works fine with Mozilla Firefox

Question

I need to display a warning window other than English, for which I am using a bean message using the application resource properties file. The code written in JSP works fine in Firefox, but in IE the characters are confused and I get all the field characters inside the warning window. The same problem occurs for tooltips. Any solutions?

Answer 1

I found a solution for my request. In fact, the problems were with tool tips and warnings that were displayed in field signs only in Internet Explorer, and this also in Windows Xp, but it worked correctly in Windows 7 and other browsers. I have done this:

1. Right Click On Desktop
2. Properties
3. Appearence Tab
4. Click On Advanced Button
5. In the Item Combo box Select MessageBox(the font combo box should get enabled by then)
6. Select Arial MS Unicode Font instead of Tahoma(Windows XP Default) Font.

And then check. The desired result will be shown. This solution works, but it seems to work fine. Thanks to WouterH and Hardik for the guide.

Answer 2

Check page encodings

FF uses UTF-8 encoding. Browse → Character Encodings

Earlier versions of IE encoding were set according to the language on the client when the document did not specify an encoding

What version of IE are you using?

It may also help. IE uses the wrong character set when it renders an HTML page

charset utf ?

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">