Re: Switching to UTF-8. Need help.

This is my code: <?php $str = "öüéööööéééÉooOOúúúú"; echo $str; echo "<br>"; echo utf8_encode ($str); ?> ???????????????????? öüéööööéééÉõõÕÕúúúú I tried all the ways: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> and <?php header('Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8');?> etc. The first echo... is not showed correctly. The second (with the encoding function) works well. In php.ini the default encoding is UFT-8. The webserver sends the correct encoding. By default the browser(tested on IE and firefox) sees as UFT-8 encoding for the page. If I output the string with utf8_encode function than it wroks well. But... it this the solution??? I don't want to modify the whole project. Best regards, Andy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Lynch" <ceo@l-i-e.com> To: "Andy" <frum@ar-sd.net> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 2:14 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] 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.

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