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PHP - UTF8 problem with German characters.

Answer 1

+1 A:

Maybe you could try adding this inside your <head> tag?

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

jkndrkn 2009-11-18 16:48:48

The declaration in the HTTP header has a higher priority.

Gumbo 2009-11-18 16:51:10

Answer 2

+3 A:

I found the problem...

Excel exported the text with Windows encoding, so it looked correct even in TextMate on my mac. When I reopen with UTF8 encoding the problem was visible in the translations file.

To resolve I used EditPadPro on a PC to convert to UTF8.

Phew.

FearMediocrity 2009-11-18 17:00:02

Answer 3

+1 A:

The page encoding is UTF8, and I've added:

Probably not. Make sure that the php file is actually saved with utf-8 encoding.

troelskn 2009-11-18 17:18:36

Answer 4

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Hi.. I use Coda but I think textmate has to offer some option like Text->Encoding->Unicode UTF-8, activate it and then your file will be encoded properly and then save it. Anyway if you are going to put some forms and you are not sure the people is using the correct encoding mode you'll have the same problem.

Use something like this:

<?php

$not_utf8 = "An invalid string"; //Put here the bad text for testing
$not_utf8 = mb_convert_encoding($not_utf8, 'UTF-8', mb_detect_encoding($not_utf8));

echo htmlspecialchars($not_utf8, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'); //The output should be ok, see the source code generated and search for the correct html entities for these special chars

?>

Hope this help you!

Luis.

Luis 2009-11-18 17:27:37

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