Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 11/15/05 19:03

elyob wrote:
> "elyob" <newsprofile@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:4379f7a5$1@news1.homechoice.co.uk...
>
>>"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
>>news:-sOdnTzUavOEb-TeRVn-pQ@comcast.com...
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>>>elyob wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>I'm having problems outputting data from my MySQL database. The output
>>>>should be Playa del inglés but instead I get ... Playa Del Ingl?s. I've
>>>>tried utf8_encode(), but this just converts to Playa Del Inglã©s.
>>>>
>>>>Any advice? It seems to show fine in PHPMyadmin.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>Hi, elyob,
>>>
>>>Are you using an HTML charset that displays the "é"?
>>
>>I thought so ...
>
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
>
>

I'm going to show my ignorance of foreign languages here - is this
Italian, French or what? And what's the hex value of the character?

I have seen other problems like this; it's generally the charset isn't
set up to display that particular character. And I'm not sure UTF-8
will do it.


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