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Hi all. Having more problems with utf-8 and Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn.

I'm running php (xampp) on Windows 7 (but it's also happening on my remote Linux site) and keep on getting nonsense with non-ASCII chars when they come from include files, e.g.


INCLUDE FILE: 'inc.php'

<?php
$simple = "Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn";
?>

MAIN FILE

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="cy-GB" xml:lang="cy-GB">
<head>
<meta name="language" content="Welsh" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="cy-GB" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
<?php 
include_once("inc.php"); 
echo $simple . "";
echo "Straight: Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn";
?>
</body>
</html>
</body>
</html>

I get this:


I've tried putting the utf-8 header in various placed to no avail.

Has anybody seen this before or got an idea? I've been searching for days now. I think I'm going bonkers.

//EDIT - all pages are save as UTF-8 without BOM.

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Member Avatar for tinymark

It tests perfect here. It's got to be a server directive. Do you have root or equivalent access to the server?

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Hmmm. I'll have a look. Thanks for the quick reply.

//EDIT
I' think I've cracked it, the original include file was an ANSI, but I changed it to a UTF-8 without BOM. Unfortunately, I didn't check the state of the non-ansi chars as I was using a different editor. Blast. What a fool.

I'm gonna do some more digging, but I bet that's the problem.

//EDIT AGAIN

Yes that was it. I copied the text from the editor pasted it into Notepad++ and saved as UTF-8 without BOM and now it's perfect.
Can't believe I fell into that. ANyway, thanks tinymark, it was good to know that the 'norm' worked and that it wasn't some weirdness from php itself.

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Member Avatar for TechySafi

Didn't get it, you wanna echo those danish characters? If so I think you should write

&Oslash; instead of Ø
&aelig; instead of æ

google for this.
And this line may help

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
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@Techysafi
No that's HTML. I was dealing with php. If you write in a non-English language, using html encoding will drive you insane.

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If you write in a non-English language, using html encoding will drive you insane.

me too I have this problems all the time

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> me too I have this problems all the time

Use a string file with an array of statements. As most of my sites are bi/multi-lingual, this is the only sane way to go (unless you use gettext or similar).

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