Chinese texts in HTML all become funny letters such as '&#38024'

Question

I am a complete idiot in HTML but somehow I need to make some simple edits to a HMTL page. What puzzles me is, when I open up the source code editor, all the Chinese texts on this HTML file have become something like these:

韩式半永久嘟嘟&#21767

I guess this is an encoding/decoding problem but I just don't know what to do in order to see the source code in the original Chinese texts.

Is there any tool, or any online website, where I can paste in the source code of this HTML page, so that all these characters in the source code will be decoded into the original Chinese texts?

Answer 1

You need to add the utf-8 meta tag in your head section in your html page

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