ASP.NET Encoding Tip from Scott Hanselman
Historical article · Originally published April 11, 2003; technical details may be outdated.
Tip from Scott Hanselman
If your life sucks so badly that you have to support Netscape 4.x, you might want to remember that Netscape 4 never handled Unicode/UTF-8 very well. Since UTF-8 is ASP.NET's default Response Encoding, you'll often see the Evil Black Squares "" ©2003 displayed instead of your text.
Easily fixed though, change the following line in the Web.config file from
to:
[via Wagner Blog]
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