title: How to make the page show the international characters correctly without breaking?
body: <p>I have this strange character problem, even the page is set to use utf-8</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!doctype html&gt;
  &lt;html&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
  &lt;meta charset="utf-8"&gt;
  &lt;script src="js/intlTelInput.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;script&gt; 
      $("#smsto,#offlinesmsto").intlTelInput({
      autoHideDialCode: false,
      defaultCountry: "be",
      utilsScript: "js/utils.js"
    }); 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How to resolve the broken characters please? 
  i am using this plugin: <a href="https://github.com/Bluefieldscom/intl-tel-input" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/Bluefieldscom/intl-tel-input</a></p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/atRBg.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>