Currently my site supports English, portuguese, swedish and polish. But for some reason some polish characters dont show right, like Zal�z konto it should look like this Zalóz konto
I have this
// Send the Content-type header in case the web server is setup to send something else
header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
and inside <head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
if you retrieve the data from mysql database with php you should use this query before do anything..
mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8");
So data received from db will be properly encoded, if they was properly stored in it...
You need to convert your string to UTF8 also.
utf8_encode() does not check what encoding your string was in, and sometimes it gives you a messed up string, so I made a function called forceUTF8() to do this right.
You dont need to know what the encoding of your strings is. It can be Latin1 (iso 8859-1) or UTF8, or the string can have a mix of the two. forceUTF8() will convert everything to UTF8.
I needed this because a service was giving me a data feed all messed up, mixing UTF8 and Latin1 in the same string.
Usage:
$utf8_string = forceUTF8($utf8_or_latin1_or_mixed_string);
$latin1_string = forceLatin1($utf8_or_latin1_or_mixed_string);
I've included another function, fixUFT8(), wich will fix every UTF8 string that looks garbled.
Usage:
$utf8_string = fixUTF8($garbled_utf8_string);
Examples:
echo fixUTF8("Fédération Camerounaise de Football");
echo fixUTF8("Fédération Camerounaise de Football");
echo fixUTF8("FÃÂédÃÂération Camerounaise de Football");
echo fixUTF8("Fédération Camerounaise de Football");
will output:
Fédération Camerounaise de Football
Fédération Camerounaise de Football
Fédération Camerounaise de Football
Fédération Camerounaise de Football
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