Posted by Chaddy2222 on 06/26/07 15:39

On Jun 27, 12:38 am, "BootNic" <boot...@bounce.earthlink.net> wrote:
> > dorayme <doraymeRidT...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> >news: doraymeRidThis-28E087.23060026062__BEGIN_MASK_n#9g02mG7!__...__END_MASK_i?a63jfAD$z__@news-vip.optusnet.com.au
> > I have been getting some strange characters appear from my local
> > server when some markup is delivered via a php include. Even when
> > I select all in the include file and delete and save, I get,
> > naturally enough none of the usual text icorporated. Yet these
> > characters appear at the top of the include in all browsers.
> > Sorry, I have not identified exactly the factors causing this
> > yet. The characters concerned are:
>
> > 
>
> > Anyone recognise these and so give me any sort of clue that could
> > be helpful in tracking the source of the problem please? (Hard to
> > know if these will appear correctly when I post this. Might have
> > to screen shot them...)
>
> If a include file is saved in UTF-8 with BOM and included in a file
> served as iso-8859-1, one could expect to see the same result.
>
> As Benjamin Niemann suggest, save utf-8 without BOM, as well as the
> document its going to be included in.
>
> Serve your document as utf-8
> <?php
>    header("Content-Type:text/html; charset=utf-8");
> ?>
> or you could change your php default charset
>
> default_mimetype = "text/html"
> default_charset = "utf-8"
>
Yes, this sounds like what I was trying to get at. I am half a sleep
though so kind of worded it badly.
But I know what I ment.
--
Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.awardspace.biz

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