Re: opening utf-8 files - chinese mb characters

Andrew Ballard wrote:

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote:

Merlin Morgenstern wrote:

Hello everybody, I am having some trouble with utf-8 encoding. The html file containes chinese characters and looks ok, when opened in a browser. Now I want to extract some text from the file. In order to do this I do: $handle = fopen($file, "r"); $contents = fread($handle, filesize($file)); echo $contents; The chinese characters are gone by then. They show up as questinomarks or wired characters. To fix it I tried to add: $contents = utf8_decode($contents); header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8"); But still... no luck :-( Has somebody an idea why??

Check that the page really is displayed with the right encoding - in FF, Ctrl-I. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (16.6°C)

A bit off topic, but Ctrl+I no longer brings up the Page Info in Firefox like it used to -- at least on my Windows computers. (It opens the bookmark list in the sidebar.) Does it do differently under Linux? Andrew

I use windows right click for this. Actually I isolated the problem, but still I can't figure out how to solve it. The page is not utf-8, but ugb2312. I am already sending the header through php: header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=ugb2312"); And with apache http.conf: AddDefaultCharset ugb2312 However firefox still claims that it is utf-8 which is causing the strange characters. What a night mare! Does anybody have an idea on how to get closer to solving this? Regards, Merlin