Special characters problem!

[Akira]

Ok, should be a stupid thing i'm missing but guys, please help.

 

Working on a german site, which have loads of special chars like for example; ü.

 

Now, I know, by inserting that kinda text in a DB with htmlentities() function, that fixes the problem.

But now, in a language file, I have this:

 

$LANG_SITE['link']['text']='<img src="/d4/_img/icon_link.gif"> Link zur offiziellen Website des Büros der';

 

When i echo or print this array, the Büros part displays like:  B?er

Using htmlentities() doens't work, cause it mixes up the html code.

 

What is a other work arround?

 

Thanks in advance for any responds!

   

[sKunKbad]

You might check that you are declaring the character set in the head section of the page, and that there isn't a charset being output by php itself.

[Akira]

Oh My **** dude, thanks, this was the stupid thing i was talking about lol

 

By just deleting

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

in the header fixed the entire problem...

 

your my hero dude! Thanks!

[DarkWater]

You WANT utf-8.  You need to make sure you're sending UTF-8 headers (if you're sending any), and make sure that database it set to use utf-8.  It'll work if your entire coding structure is set to UTF-8.

[Akira]

thanks for your repley!

 

I created my DB in utf-8

But don't see what it shouldn't work with <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> cause everything what i know of is set to it.

[DarkWater]

Are you sure that the page that has to form to input into the database is using utf-8?