[Fwd: Re: [PHP] Character set problems]

Forwarding back to the list, since I'm one of those evil people that uses HTML to write email :) -------- Original Message -------- Robert Cummings wrote: <snip> >> So, based on the headers I'm using, and the myphpAdmin settings, is there something >> I'm missing? I guess I was assuming since the headers are set for utf-8, and the "MySQL >> charset = UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)", that everything would be compatible. >> > > Do you have this in your php.ini? > > default_charset = "utf-8" > > Or if you want... the following in a .htaccess or virtual host config: > > php_value default_charset utf-8 > > You can even manually output it from within your PHP code: > > header( 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8' ); > > Cheers, > Rob. > This will fix it in PHP, but may not fix it for any .html file that's on the server -- even with the appropriate meta tags, check apache's 'AddDefaultCharset' setting too. Regards, Ryan Yagatich -- Pantek, Inc. - http://www.pantek.com/ - info@pantek.com +1-877-LINUX-FIX - Expert Open Source Technical Support