# Character sets - please help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/character-sets-please-help/185280>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [April 12, 2006, 5:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/character-sets-please-help/185280 "2006-04-12T05:57:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![leisuresuitlissy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/leisuresuitlissy/32/2109_2.png) [@leisuresuitlissy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/leisuresuitlissy)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 5:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/character-sets-please-help/185280/1 "2006-04-12T05:57:05Z")

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Hello people.

I’m building a website for somebody with multilingual capabilities, which works to the extent that things get translated okay, but the non-latin languages (Russian, Chinese etc) don’t display correctly. Does anyone know what character set I should be using?

Thanks  
Me

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**Author:** ![bwh2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@bwh2](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bwh2)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 6:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/character-sets-please-help/185280/2 "2006-04-12T06:12:56Z")

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unicode.

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**Author:** ![Ankou](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/ankou/32/1351_2.png) [@Ankou](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ankou)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 6:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/character-sets-please-help/185280/3 "2006-04-12T06:19:11Z")

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

```

…is your friend… 🙂

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**Author:** ![leisuresuitlissy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/leisuresuitlissy/32/2109_2.png) [@leisuresuitlissy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/leisuresuitlissy)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 7:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/character-sets-please-help/185280/4 "2006-04-12T07:28:47Z")

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Yay, thanks

I already had UTF 8 but failed to do this: \<%@ page contentType=“text/html; charset=utf-8”%\>

Got there in the end (-: