Not Applicable (I get no error message)
When accessing the above InfinityFree website, a � is displayed wherever Non-English characters (e.g. French vowels with accents) appear in my ‘index.html’ file.
Curiously enough:
I think I see the problem: the file is saved with the Windows-1252 charset (and also the website is on the great-site.net subdomain, not on the .com version as there it redirects to another ad parking service). Make sure to save it as UTF-8 on Word (and also set the charset to UTF-8 on the HTML document itself) if you want to show them, then upload your website again.
My good old big index.html file was produced using Microsoft Word. It grew bigger and bigger through the years, and, as you say it had charset=Windows-1252.
I tried to modify using Microsoft Word, to force it to use charset=utf-8.
That didn’t work.
I used Microsoft Word again to start a new index.html from scratch, slowly adding text. And OOOPS! The text was saved by Word as charset=utf-8 and now all is well.
Miracles happen.
Please don’t use MS word for code writing. It’s a rich text editor, and nowhere near an IDE. Even something like notepad would be a much better choice.
Look into software that’s meant for writing code, something like notepad++ or sublime.
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