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Meta charset windows-1252 vs utf-8

My HTML pages use <meta charset="windows-1252"> .

  • Is it recommended to change UTF-8 and why?
  • I checked some of my pages with UTF-8 and got question marks with some math symbols. EG: x should be changed to & times; to display correctly. I tried CpConverter , but it did not convert all characters well.

Is there a better way to convert many files?

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  • UTF-8 is usually the standard that works everywhere. Windows-any encoding depends on Windows and is not guaranteed to work on any computer. Also, look here and here.
  • If you want to change the encoding of a file, you can do this in many ways. You can search for the type of encoding in a text editor / IDE or use the following command (not verified, it should work):

iconv -f WINDOWS-1252 -t UTF-8 filename.txt

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This is an old question, but my answer may help someone solve it better.

Switching from ANSI (windows-1252) to UTF-8 roughly doubles the size of HTML files. (Depending on the characters used in the file)

If you want to verify this, simply create a file in notepad with the following characters:

الف

These characters are present in both ANSI (Windows-1256) and Unicode. Save the file once with ANSI encoding (Windows-1256) and again with UTF-8 encoding.

UTF-8 file size: 9 bytes

ANSI File Size (Windows-1256): 3 bytes

if you want to change the encoding of your page, just open them in notepad or any other editor and save as in UTF-8 encoding.

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