Re: how php knows the charset of my code?

On 9/27/07, drysler <drysler@gmx.de> wrote: > Hello, > > i am practising with charsets at the moment and so i thought: > > -> How does PHP know the charset i use in my source-code? > -> Are php-sources limited to specific charsets? > -> In which areas you have to be aware of the source-code-charset? > > > Perhaps somebody here on the list can tell something about these issues? > Thanks! > Unless I'm mistaken, PHP expects the source files to be in the internal charset, which is ISO-8859-1. If you use the mbstring extension, you can use different internal encodings. See: http://www.php.net/mbstring Another good read on charset vs. PHP is: http://www.phpwact.org/php/i18n/charsets?s=utf -- troels