Disappearing special letters

[aproblem]

Hello.

 

Im running my own classifieds site www.ilmoitukset.org.

 

For some reason the special letters like äöå disappear sometimes.

 

Any idea what could be the reason?

Is it fixable problem?

I dont have any experience in php. It's free script that im using.

[MadTechie]

your using ISO-8859-1 encoding, change to UTF-8

[aproblem]

How can this encoding change by it self?

 

Sometimes the letters are in every page, somtimes the letters are on some pages and somtimes thay arent anywhere.

 

And where this coding could be changed?

 

From mysql or from script?

[MadTechie]

if your text is being pull from the database then add the following two queries

mysql_query("SET CHARACTER SET utf8");
mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");

 

now on the page you need to tell the browser you using UTF-8 so add a UTF-8 header

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

(you could also do this via a meta tag)

 

The encoding isn't changing, its the characters to the left or right that are affecting it,

 

for example

你好

is 2 Chinese letters BUT is made up of 5 characters

你好

if i removed the å i'll get 你Ž