doddsey_65 Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 I have specified the use of utf-8 encoding using: header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); but when ever I try to print a foreign charcter like é i get a question mark in a diamond. Am i missing something? I have also set the language to french using <html lang="fr" xml:lang="fr" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phpSensei Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Did you have this? I believe its required, not too sure since I rarely work with special characters such as 'é' I am french though! <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doddsey_65 Posted August 10, 2011 Author Share Posted August 10, 2011 yes i have also included: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" /> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anups Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Just give a simple try it may help "use HTML5 standards" <!doctype html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jumpy09 Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Edit: Are you turning them into HTML Entities? If you are storing them in a Database the default Character Set is latin1 or what I believe is ISO-8859-1, if you turn them into entities before you store them it may actually display correctly. This kind of fit my original post, but I think I was completely incorrect. So question is are you storing the funky e as the funky e in a database or are you converting it to an entity? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doddsey_65 Posted August 10, 2011 Author Share Posted August 10, 2011 Just give a simple try it may help "use HTML5 standards" <!doctype html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> if i were going towards html5 then i would need to use <meta charset=UTF-8"> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morg. Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 UTF-8 is the best solution for encoding, however going full utf-8 is much more than just <meta>, you can find a lot about this on google, but few key points you might want to look into: -> html utf-8 (meta) -> php utf-8 (look at your script file encoding) -> db utf-8 (look at your db encoding) GL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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