hi,
I have a simple website having russian content, but its not displaying right in website. I am using even following meta tags
<html lang="ru">
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="ru">But still question marks are there. Please help me regarding this issue
thanks in advance
Can you give us some examples of the characters you're trying to display? Try:
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1251" />Yes i am using this as well. here is my website please check and see its view sourse
These type of characters i am using.
Итак, слева расположены кадры из "Меча
I had tried these characters just at simple html page with nothing else, then it works fine but as i am going at my actual site it convert all the text in question marks, i do not understand why its doing this.
Please Help Me.
So the windows-1251 didn't work?? Every russian site i've been to has this character encoding! Look here:
http://winrus.com/cpage_e.htm
"Most Russian-language Web pages (more than 90% for sure) are made nowadays in Windows-1251 encoding a.k.a. "Cyrillic(Windows)", just because the majority of authors work under MS Windows nowadays and 1251 is what Microsoft uses for Cyrillic, so built-in Windows Cyrillic fonts and keyboard tools are for Windows-1251 encoding."
thanks for the help nonshatter
I have read all these kind of stuff. and it works fine if i use plain html page with just text. But when i use .php file and including different files in main file and my data is coming from database then it all goes wrong. :(
Ahhh... could it be the character encoding of your database?! Check this
When I view your site, I see two different content-type meta tags:
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Морайра Инвест - недвижимость в испании - Buy, Sell, Resa</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="ru">
...
</head>You should only have 1 and you probably want to be using UTF-8 as this should contain the character sets you want to be working with.
http://www.phpwact.org/php/i18n/charsets
http://www.phpwact.org/php/i18n/utf-8
The first covers a great overview of the implications of characters sets in php and the second has a very detailed breakdown of many string functions and their risk level in terms of UTF-8 corruption.
This boils down to your outputted html needs to have a proper content-type meta tag and your application needs to send a proper content-type header and they should match.
Beyond what the articles mentions, your database connection needs to be set to the proper character set.
-MySQL Extension
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-set-charset.php
-MySQLi Extension
http://php.net/manual/en/mysqli.set-charset.php
-PDO Extension
http://www.galengrover.com/web-development/setting-the-connection-charset-with-php-mysql/
Within your database you also need to set the proper character set and collation
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-database.html
Your tables will also have similar settings.
Hopefully this helps and gets you pointed in the right direction. Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn in php can be a real pain.
Thanks for the help. But now i had resolved the issue by using hexadecimal codes. I tired every option but that was not working accurately thats why now i am using hexadecimal characters for russian text.
thanks to all of you for your help.
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