Re: utf8 php howto?

Daniel Kolbo wrote:

Hello, I have a text file encoded in utf-8. i am using fopen/fgets/echo etc.. how do i display these utf8 characters from the file on the web? I have tried different combinations of header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"); header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8") and utf8_decode/utf8_encode functions I can't seem to get the characters from the file to display as non-giberish on the web. if i set the charset=utf8, and type the unique characters in directly to my document (hard coded) and save the document as utf8, then the characters display properly on the web. examples: 1) save file as utf-8, web produces correct characters <?php header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8"); ?> <HTML><BODY> [type special characters here using russian keyboard layout] </BODY></HTML> 2) save file as ASCI, web produces [giberish] <?php header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"); ?> <HTML><BODY> <?php echo utf8_decode(fgets($handle)); ?> </BODY></HTML> 3) save file as utf-8, web produces [giberish] <?php header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8"); ?> <HTML><BODY> <?php echo fgets($handle)); ?> </BODY></HTML> Thanks for your help, dK found a solution:

save the .php file as ASCII <?php header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8"); ?> <HTML><BODY> <?php $line_buff = fgets($handle)); echo echo mb_convert_encoding($line_buff, 'HTML-ENTITIES','UTF-8'); ?> </BODY></HTML> thanks, dK