Problem with Apache and character encoding (?)

[Eggbertx]

I am having a problem with my web server. On index.html, it should say "Welcome to my website! More coming soon!" but instead, in Firefox, if I go through my server by going to eggbertx.linium.net or localhost, it shows this:

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I know it isn't the file, because the file looks normal if I open it by going to /var/www/html/index.html

I looked at /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and it says that it is using UTF-8, which I'm pretty sure is normal.

I don't remember it doing this before I installed kdewebdev and ran Quanta Plus, although I have no idea how it could have caused this. Has this happened to anyone else?

[pete_1967]

What encoding you used when creating the page and what's encoding and character set set in the meta on the page?

[markkuk]

Originally Posted by Eggbertx

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I know it isn't the file, because the file looks normal if I open it by going to /var/www/html/index.html

Open it with what? Open a terminal, dump the actual bytes in the file by "hexdump /var/www/html/index.html" and post the results.

[Eggbertx]

It was the file, but normal text editors weren't viewing the characters. I opened it with the nano command and deleted the characters. Problem solved.