Re: Weird characters output
| From: | Wouter van Vliet | Date: | Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:37:12 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Weird characters output | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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> I have recently moved a site over to a new server. Now certain
> characters are being replaced by weird characters. EG: the ' single
> quote is being replaced by a question mark and other characters are also
> affected. the information that contains these characters is inside a
> mysql database. The webserver is Apache and it is running on a linux, I
> have googled and found that it is an Apache PHP issue but have yet to
> come up with a solution. If anyone knows whats causing the problem and
> could help that would be great.
Most likely this is one of many occurences of the UTF problem. Try
adding the line
AddDefaultCharset iso-8859-1
to your httpd.conf, either within your vhost specification or by
replacing the main one. Then restart Apache. Should work.
If you don't have root access - try adding it to an .htaccess file,
but I don't know of this directive is allowed in there ..