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For PHP:

First of all you need to set your scripts encoding to utf8 (IDEs/Editors like Eclipse/Notepass++ or Ultraedit are able of this). If you will output xhtml then you maybe add:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<html>
    <head>
     <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml;charset=utf-8" />
    </head>

to force the browser to use utf8.

If youre working with for example xml documents, databases(many of them support utf8) or any other sources which are not utf8 than have a look at following functions for conversion in the php documentation:

string utf8_encode  ( string $data  );
string utf8_decode  ( string $data  );

string iconv  ( string $in_charset  , string $out_charset  , string $str  );

Here the links to the documentation:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-decode.php

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-encode.php

http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.iconv.php

As an addition try:

http://de.php.net/manual/en/book.mbstring.php

mgiza 2009-12-05 08:05:30