Accented and non-English Characters Garbled

Symptom: non-English characters, including accented characters, characters in non-Latin alphabets, and special characters like © appear correctly in CityDesk but appear as gibberish in web browsers.

Solution: insure that your templates includes the following tag as the very first tag in the <head> section:

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

Explanation: CityDesk stores files internally as Unicode, and writes them out using the UTF-8 encoding. This tag is necessary to inform the web browser to expect a page encoded using the UTF-8 encoding.

For More Information: See Unicode and Character Set Issues in the CityDesk documentation.

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