First i would look up the encoded characters and see what there value are.

Let us know what you found :)

That's an interesting issue and perhaps one not specific to Umbraco, have you seen this suggestion on Stack Overflow?

Interested to know if that solves it for you, and also I wonder if when editing Razor files in the Umbraco UI changes the encoding and removes the BOM....?

Yea i had the same thing with another project. I cannot remember the specifics but we had to save the razor files as UTF-8 with an encoding selected

Hey all,

sorry for late reply I was in a trip without laptop and didnt have time to check the answers.

I have this meta tag already in the template file: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

I also checked all the script files with notepad++ and all of them are with BOM.

My windows 2012 server is in German, could this be the reason of it?

Hi Kadir,

Just curious - when you see the rendered result in a browser, everything's fine, right? (i.e., you get the correct turkish characters, like Ö and Ç, I assume?)

The browser's parser doesn't see (or do) anything different for the entity reference Ç and the character Ç - they're both exactly the same thing from the parser's perspective.

I've seen lots of Tidy tools do the automatic conversion when tidying a document, which probably stems from when some popular browsers couldn't handle anything that wasn't either US-ASCII or Window-1259 encoded, so the tools just converted any "dangerous" characters to entity-references for the sake of the users.

Maybe your editor does a pre-save tidying step when you save the files?

/Chriztian

Hey Chriztian,

Yes in the rendered results, browser displays everything correctly. I have tried notepadd++, sublimetext editor, notepad and umbraco's native editor, but I still get the same results.

I have discovered another thing though: when I use @item.incentiveDescription I have encoding problems

but when I use Truncate like: @(Library.Truncate(Library.StripHtml(item.incentiveDescription), 180, true)) there are no problems at encoding.

I still couldn't find the source of this problem though.

Only solution is to use @Html.Raw(abc.ToString()). But I don't know how to apply it for datetimes for example for this : @umbraco.library.FormatDateTime(umbraco.library.CurrentDate(), "MMMM") 
@HTML.Raw doesn't seem to work.

Kadir bey problemi çözebildiniz mi? aynı problemi bende yaşıyorum da.

Hi

try this

Use Regex to solve this problem

string one = childNode.GetProperty("aliasname").Value;

string two = Regex.Replace(one, @"<[^>]+>|&nbsp;", "").Trim();

string correcttext = Regex.Replace(two, @"\s{2,}", " ");

string text = correcttext;

hope this help

Regards

Samira

Looks like this is a "feature" of Razor that it will always HTML encode attributes. See: Razor - @Html.Raw() still encoding & in meta tag attributes.

So to work around this, you can do the following:

<meta name="description" @Html.Raw("content=\""+ @Umbraco.Field("pageDescription") + "\"") />

It's not pretty, but it works.

Source URL Address : http://sofc.developer-works.com/article/19875431/Meta+description+with+special+characters+in+Umbraco

It was tested. The problem is solved.

Thanks. Best regard.

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