PHP File Characters

@Cory_RJun 24.2009

How do you force certain characters to appear correctly in a PHP file?

See below for an example.

~~[URL=http://i42.tinypic.com/2l8k7sp.png]~~The character that is suppose to appear.[/URL]

~~[URL=http://i41.tinypic.com/k9axl0.png]~~The character that is appearing in place of the character that is suppose to appear.[/URL]

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@MindzaiJun 24.2009 — #The problem is probably some discrepancy between character sets somewhere. I have found it easiest to make sure everything uses UTF-8 as this caters for pretty much any known characters (even klingon!) and is being updated all the time. Have a read of this:

http://developer.loftdigital.com/blog/php-utf-8-cheatsheet

One thing that isnt mentioned there which I've found in the past is to send a 'SET NAMES utf8' query after connecting so that inserted data is entered correctly as well read correctly.

@bokehJun 24.2009 — #That charset is latin 1. Set the correct charset with an http header.
[code=php]header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1');[/code]

@Cory_RauthorJun 25.2009 — #Here's my friends response to you, Mindzai.

Well the problem is I've already tried that and still no dice =

<?php header('Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8'); ?>
That's what I've been using on the query page, which if you view the source still displays it wrong. I know it's not the database however, since I can read the records there and see the characters all correctly (for example, σκοτάδ&#953?, and it's also in utf-8. So that's why I have no idea what's wrong with it...[/QUOTE]

Friends response to you, bokeh.

Also no dice, as expected since if the database can display it with utf-8, the page should be able to as well ?[/QUOTE]

@Cory_RauthorJul 07.2009 — #Anymore feedback?

@SyCoJul 07.2009 — #I think you can to use htmlentities() and html_entity_decode() It's how I've handled Portuguese characters in a English based site.

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