Default web browser character encoding in php

Question

Does anyone know how can I default web browser character encoding in php, which I hope all user drop in to the page with using character encoding western (ISO-8859-1)

Answer 1

You can set the character encoding by outputting the Content-Type header.

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1');

This will tell the browser to use this character set to read your pages.

Answer 2

Before printing/echoing anything else do this

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1');

This will change HTTP headers and will set the browser's default encoding to ISO-8859-1 for your page, unless the user specifies otherwise via browser's settings.