While making this website I encountered an error that ” ’ ” was decoding as “’” due to some weired reason and I thought the framework I am using was broken, but no the issue was far more simpler.

I wrote the header of HTML for my website manually instead of using the autocomplete that is ! + tab which gets you all the starter heading tags etc. This was my mistake as I never defined that I am using utf-8 encoding for my site and the mess seemed almost unfixable. After a lot of back and forth I landed on this StackOverflow post.

What the issue was?

I just missed:

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

Yes that’s it! As I didn’t specify the charset, the page was decoding as CP-1252 instead of UTF-8. I am just writing this so I always remember it as even the LLM’s were unable to provide proper answers on why this was happening.