# Character Encoding

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/character-encoding/207728>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [November 21, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/character-encoding/207728 "2006-11-21T00:09:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![DrRobotnik](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/drrobotnik/32/1796_2.png) [@DrRobotnik](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DrRobotnik)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/character-encoding/207728/1 "2006-11-21T00:09:36Z")

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Recently took over a project from another designer and I don’t know much about the set up. All I know is when I post text into the html file it renders terrible.  
I set a meta like so:  
\<meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=utf-8” /\>

and when I go to validate it says:

```
  The character encoding specified in the HTTP header (iso-8859-1) is different from the value in the &lt;meta&gt; element (utf-8).

```

How do I check the HTTP header? I have come across special character issues in the past and dropped the meta content type and it fixed it. Is this a server setting or something?