Azure Static Websites encoding apostrophes and other characters in a weird way

408 Views Asked by Ali Bdeir At 12 April 2025 at 14:32

Here's what this text looks like when I load the HTML locally in Chrome:

On the contrary, here's what it looks like rendered after I publish to Azure Static Websites:

Apostrophes, quotations, and other characters are being rendered as some weird text.

What's the cause of this? Why does it happen only when published? Seems like an Azure bug to me.

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Salmane Ait Moudoud On 11 September 2020 at 02:43 BEST ANSWER

check if you have this line in the head section

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>