Seeing "Â" character appear for no reason from content in CMS.
3 posts by 3 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: April 17, 2013 (RSS)
By meg - April 17, 2013
A client's server was hacked last week, and the hosting package had to reset some server settings. I got the CMS working again and I'm in the process of reconnecting it to the pages. I'm noticing in a couple of sections that the character "Â" is randomly appearing from displayed content from the CMS. One area is from a WYSIWYG, but I checked the HTML and there's no sign of that character. The other is from a textbox. Any thoughts? This is so strange...
By gkornbluth - April 17, 2013
Hi meg,
Could be the character set being accessed.
This is the one that's normally generated by CMSB at the top of the viewer code <?php header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); ?>
If the site was hacked, here might be something in an .htaccess file as well, along with some other goodies left by the hacker in that file.
Good luck,
Jerry Kornbluth
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By Dave - April 17, 2013
Yep, Jerry's right. It's a common issue where the encoding gets switched up. Â is non-breaking-space.
Does the  chars show up in the CMS or just on the website? If it's only on the website ask your host if they can set the default encoding back to UTF-8.
A quick google shows that this problem usually occurs when the encoding get's switched so that would be my first guess:
- http://ask.metafilter.com/71246/What-the-%C3%82
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1461907/html-encoding-issues-character-showing-up-instead-of-nbsp
Hope that helps! Let me know any questions.
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