Re: Switching to UTF-8. Need help.

Check the HEADERS your web-server is sending. If they don't have Charset UTF-8 in there, it won't work on REAL browsers (Mozilla based) Then, for reasons known only to Microsoft, you have to use a META tag to define the Charset for IE. MS will *ignore* the headers in favor of a heuristic whereby they count the number of characters in any given document which do/don't fit into various common charsets, and then they choose the charset based on that. Apparently, MS assumes that web-designers who can only handle META tags are smarter than developers who use header() function. Go figure. :-^ On Thu, March 23, 2006 10:13 am, Andy wrote: > Hi to all, > > We are developing a multilanguage application, and slowly it seems > that the Latin1(ISO 5589 1) encoding is not enough. > I tried simply to convert the database and the encoding of the php to > UTF-8, but I'm getting some problems. > > If I make an echo 'möbel, Belgien' the browser does not show me the > correct character. If I look in the source of the document the > character is good. Default encoding of the browser is UTF-8. If I > change manually the browser encoding then the chars are showed > correclty. > > We have a lot of "defines" with fix texts, which are full with german > and french characters. Any of these aren't shower correctly. > > What is the workaround for this? > > Best regards, > Andy. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm