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I'm generating cshtml files dynamically for our CMS and using UTF-8 as encoding. I also tried to open those files using Notepad++ and it says that the encoding is UTF-8.



And I just use the controller's View() method to serve the page:



return View(path);


But it still improperly renders the special characters to a wrong one. Like 'α' becoming 'α', or single quote becoming '’'. The generated files when inspecting contains the correct characters, but when it getting served, it shows incorrect characters.






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    I'm generating cshtml files dynamically for our CMS and using UTF-8 as encoding. I also tried to open those files using Notepad++ and it says that the encoding is UTF-8.



    And I just use the controller's View() method to serve the page:



    return View(path);


    But it still improperly renders the special characters to a wrong one. Like 'α' becoming 'α', or single quote becoming '’'. The generated files when inspecting contains the correct characters, but when it getting served, it shows incorrect characters.






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      I'm generating cshtml files dynamically for our CMS and using UTF-8 as encoding. I also tried to open those files using Notepad++ and it says that the encoding is UTF-8.



      And I just use the controller's View() method to serve the page:



      return View(path);


      But it still improperly renders the special characters to a wrong one. Like 'α' becoming 'α', or single quote becoming '’'. The generated files when inspecting contains the correct characters, but when it getting served, it shows incorrect characters.






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      I'm generating cshtml files dynamically for our CMS and using UTF-8 as encoding. I also tried to open those files using Notepad++ and it says that the encoding is UTF-8.



      And I just use the controller's View() method to serve the page:



      return View(path);


      But it still improperly renders the special characters to a wrong one. Like 'α' becoming 'α', or single quote becoming '’'. The generated files when inspecting contains the correct characters, but when it getting served, it shows incorrect characters.






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          I found the issue and solution. The cshtml files should be written not by simple UTF8 format, but UTF8-BOM file format. Non-BOM UTF8 cshtml files' special characters were converted into something when getting served through return View(path);.






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