Some letters not working, why?

[michalchojno]

I want to display some non-English text on the website. I put the following code:

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

The non-English letters do not display (actually these letters display in a funny way).

 

What did I miss? Shouldn't UTF-8 have all the letters?

 

[Zyx]

Yes, it has all the letters, but you haven't actually told the browser that you are using UTF-8. In case of this encoding, META tags are ignored and you have to send a HTTP header:

 

header('Content-type: text/html;charset=utf-8');

[michalchojno]

Is this PHP tag? Where should I put it?

[ukweb]

Put it in PHP tags before any HTML, line 1 basically.

 

<?php header('Content-type: text/html;charset=utf-8'); ?>

[michalchojno]

I put that. Still the letters display in a funny way. What else do I miss?

[MadTechie]

Maybe giving us an example may help!

where are you getting the text from ?