: The characters except English are not readable on DirectAdmin editor When I try to edit my idex.html I see strange characters in my atributs and tags <title>&#4321;&#4304;&#4304;&#4322;&#4308;&#4321;&

@Lengel546

use MANUAL CHARACTER replacing function - pastebin.com/raw.php?i=Ln51WxqR ( i was unable to paste that function here, because the SPECIAL CHARS are being filtered by StackOverflow).

then decode like this:

echo INCORRECT_GEO_to_ENG('ელგუჯáƒ');

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@Kevin317

What you are seeing are HTML character entities. From Wikipedia:


In SGML, HTML and XML documents, the logical constructs known as character data and attribute values consist of sequences of characters, in which each character can manifest directly (representing itself), or can be represented by a series of characters called a character reference, of which there are two types: a numeric character reference and a character entity reference.


See also: Help:Special characters

Basically the browser takes the entity reference (i.e. &#4321;) and displays it as the character it represents: ს.

Reasons why they are used (I think your cause is point #2 ):


your keyboard does not support the character you need to type, e.g. many keyboards do not have em-dash or the copyright symbol.
your editor does not support unicode (very common some years ago, but probably not today)
you want to make it explicit in the source what is happening, e.g. the   code is more clear than the corresponding whitespace character.
when you need to escape HTML special characters like >, &, or ".

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