Posted by Iv�n S�nchez Ortega on 06/13/07 10:09

Michael Price wrote:

> The mySQL database is set up for UTF-8, although the client's
> webserver is serving the page with the form on as ISO-8859-1 - does
> this need to change?

Seems likely.

> When stored in the database / echoed into an e-mail the above string
> comes out as a complete mess: " Î?Ï?Ï?ά είÎ?αι ελληÎ?ικά
> Î?Ï?Ï?ά είÎ?αι ελληÎ?ικά"

Try setting your browser/email reader to display the same page/email into a
different config. With Kmail, Konqueror and Firefox it's a breeze.

> So how do I ensure the typed characters, be they Chinese, Russian,
> Greek or even just accented or with umlauts are maintained into the
> database and out into an e-mail?

Just be very, very sure of what character encoding you're using. Keep track
of it, and look out for agents (web browsers) that post data in a different
encoding.

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