UTF-8 doesn't seem to be working

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UTF-8 doesn't seem to be working

nabilfreeman opened this issue 6 years ago · 1 comments

Hey there, I'm using this Lambda script, honestly it's awesome and you've done a great job @jblotus .

However there's one thing I can't get working which is UTF-8 support. As you can see below emoji fails to render (not a huge issue) but also even a £ sign doesn't appear to work properly which makes me think it's using the most basic of text encoding. $ works.

Here's the code I used to generate the base64...

const buffer = new Buffer('£', 'utf8');
const base64 = buffer.toString('base64');

Any idea what's happened? Is this something I can fix with a config option?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1 · 2018-09-04T16:52:21.000Z

I fixed it! Should've just Googled for a few more minutes haha.

There was no encoding in my markup. I wasn't even sending a <head> or <body> tag, just the <div> tags etc.

This was the important line:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

So I wrapped my rendered HTML in a <body> tag, added the above meta in the head and put an <html> around everything. Now renders perfectly, minus emoji.