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Aug 02.2008

I’m replicating a client’s setup on my local machine. Their live site is Greek, and displays fine in my browser with its Greek characters, but my local copy outputs question marks in place of any occurence of Greek characters.

Sending “Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-7” via the header() function does not alleviate the problem. I’ve similarly tried AddCharset and AddDefaultCharset in .htaccess/httpd.conf with no results. I can also confirm the data itself was imported correctly, as the characters display fine in MySQL Administrator and phpMyAdmin.

Can anyone help?

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@scragarAug 02.2008 — have you set the right meta tag as well? It's the only other thing I could imagine causing a problem:
<meta http-equiv="content-type"
content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-7" />
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@flardauthorAug 03.2008 — Yes, the contents of that meta tag is identical to the header sent. It's a really strange issue.

Any other ideas?
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@flardauthorAug 03.2008 — Bumping this as quite urgent...can anyone shed any light on the matter?
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@callumdAug 03.2008 — You need to ensure the page was encoded with [i]iso-8859-7[/i]. Simply putting that in the meta tag doesn't make it so.

Open the HTML files in a HTML editor, and there will be an option somewhere of "character set" or "encoding type". Make sure it is set to [i]iso-8859-7[/i] before you save it.

As long as you then use the meta tag that scragar showed, you should be ok, [i]unless[/i] your local machine does not have the [i]iso-8859-7[/i] character set installed.
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