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Getting special characters with gettext

Hi. I am using gettext to translate my site. In norwegian I need to use the charaters æøå, but they show up blank. I have set the $encoding = 'iso-8859-1';from wikipedia it says that æøå should be available, but as I said they show up blank. In poedit settings and my po/mo file I have set encoding to iso-8859-1.

ps. I want to support all langauges in the future so I would like to use the "best" encoding with the most characters so I don't need to change my code in the future to support new languages.

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Based on your last comment, you could switch to using UTF-8. That will solve both of your problems...

NinjaCat  2010-08-16 20:51:52
Actually, 8859 should work, perhaps you don't have the Norweigian locale installed or configured on your system?
NinjaCat  2010-08-16 20:55:38
How do I check this?
ganjan  2010-08-16 21:13:53
What OS are you running?
NinjaCat  2010-08-16 21:20:49
windows 7 for development and Windows Server 2003 for hosting
ganjan  2010-08-16 21:25:54
Look under "Example #2 setlocale() Examples for Windows" @ http://php.net/manual/en/function.setlocale.phpIt also refers to the locales @ http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vclib/html/_crt_language_strings.asp
NinjaCat  2010-08-16 21:42:20

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