Posted by Jochem Maas on 01/13/05 23:31

OOzy Pal wrote:
> Dears,
>
> My html templates are encoded using utf-8. When the
> browser reads the files as .html it encodes it fine
> and my characters looks fine. However, when php reads
> the files and sends them to the browser the files
> looks ugly and unreadable. How can I force the broswer
> to encode the pages in utf-8.

does it help if you add the following statement to your php file(s):

header("Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8");

the call to header must occur before any output is done.
also you may wish to investigate the usage of (and your current settings
of) the follow ini settings:

mbstring.internal_encoding
mbstring.encoding_translation
mbstring.internal_encoding
default_charset

I don't profess to have a good grip on charsets/encoding/transcoding etc
and I've yet to find an article that I can get my head round...
can anyway out there confess to actually understanding this stuff - Im
very interested!

>
> =====
> Regards,
> OOzy
>
> What is the purpose of life?
does there need to be a purpose?

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