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Posted by Kevin Laurence on 09/30/39 11:33
Yes. The response header includes 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8'.
"Juliette" <jrf_no_spam@jokeaday.net> wrote in message
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> Kevin Laurence wrote:
>> Can anyone advise me on the use of UTF-8 in PHP and MySQL? What is the
>> best approach?
>>
>> I would prefer to store HTML extended characters in the database as
>> UTF-8, but I can only get the HTML to display properly if I store
>> character entities (eg. ř).
>>
>> Every table in my database is set to UTF-8. The web page generated by PHP
>> is declared as UTF-8. The HTTP response header from the server is UTF-8.
>> The character set of the database connection is defined as UTF-8.
>>
>> I've tried using the PHP function "htmlentities" to convert the
>> characters, but it doesn't work for the complete UTF-8 character set.
>>
>> What am I missing? Do I need to do something with the Multibyte string
>> functions?
> Are you sending a header which tells the browser you will be sending it
> UTF-8 ?
> header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
>
> In the HTML you could also add:
> <meta http-equiv="Charset" content="UTF-8" />
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
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