I use PHP to access a database to get a string like this
‘Chloe’ Fashion Show & Dinner
and then I do a printf() to output the string as html, but my webpage shows this:
�Chloe� Fashion Show & Dinner
All contents are English-based, do I miss something in PHP?
Where should I be checking?
Check if your .php file is encoded as UTF-8 without BOM
Check that your connection to the database is UTF-8
Check that you send <meta charset="utf-8"> in your HTML markup in the <head> tag
If your connection to the database is not UTF-8 and you don't want to change it (but I recommend it -> everything UTF-8 is the most secure solution against character rubbish) use utf8_encode($databaseValue) to ensure the encoding of your value is UTF-8.
Make sure that you use:
<meta charset="utf-8">
in the head of your page.
You need to add charset meta tag in 'head' section of html.
Note that the meta tag must appear within the first 1024 bytes of rendered page.
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
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I write this code in Html file
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-15" />
</head>
<body>
Try with special character (ì)
</body>
</html>
When I display my html file it's all ok
Try with special character (ì)
But when I rename my html file in php file this is the result
Try with special character (�)
Someone can help me to understand?
You could try with UTF-8:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
Have a look at the PHP function mb_internal_encoding. It sets the character set that PHP will use internally. If you add this at the top of your HTML:
<?php
mb_internal_encoding("iso-8859-15");
?>
Your HTML should show fine if the file is in ISO-8859-15. What happens is that PHP interprets the HTML looking for PHP blocks and generates the output based on the default internal encoding. In combination with mb_http_output() you can have a source file in one encoding, generating output in a different encoding.
Specify the character encoding for the HTML document:
character_set Specifies the character encoding for the HTML document.
Common values:
UTF-8 - Character encoding for Unicode
ISO-8859-1 - Character encoding for the Latin alphabet
In theory, any character encoding can be used, but no browser understands all of them. The more widely a character encoding is used, the better the chance that a browser will understand it.
To view all available character encodings, look at IANA character sets.
You just replace the below html:
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
</head>
<body>
Try with special character (ì)
</body>
</html>
fm API to get event discription, venue name etc...
Now sometimes I get special chars back like: ' é à , but they show up scrabled.
So how can I display them properly? Also with the descrioption I get html-tags back, but I do want to keep these.
Can someone help me out fot those both cases? The language I'm using is php
Thanks in advance
specify encoding in the header:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
...
encode string when handling the input
$str=utf8_encode($str);
if you are displaying the input back as-is, no encoding is required;
however, if the value is the content of an input or textarea, escape the html characters
<?php echo htmlspecialchars($str); ?>
For Latin characters, use
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
in your section.
you need to be sure about two things, the meta header referring to which enconding you will be using, and the encoding you are using for the text served.
If you are using a utf8 header just be sure to convert the text served to utf8, refer to functions for encoding conversion like : mb_convert_encoding
I am having a strange issue. I have Swedish characters. My charset works fine when in loop and being pulled from mysql using PHP but when I simply enter HTML text Swedish character Å, Ä and Ö it does not work. Currently this is my set Charset:
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html" charset="ISO-8859-1">
Here is a picture of how it looks in the browser:
Now here is a picture of data being pulled from Mysql (in loop) on the same page:
If this question has been asked before, please direct me to the page. Could it be somethign to do with the actual page encoding?
You should try this:
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html" charset="UTF-8">
Probably the file itself ist stored in UTF-8.Try and save it as a ANSI file.
In notepad++ this can be done via Encoding > Encode in ANSI in the menubar.
Or try to change the meta tag as already suggested.
OK so I have a PHP file with several strings of text in various languages. For most languages like French or Spanish I just simply type in the characters.
The problem I have is with Russian language characters. The PHP file is encoded in UTF-8, how can I make sure that the Russian characters are both saved correctly and displayed correctly on the output web page... Is it just a case of pasting the text into the PHP file, or is there a way to guarantee the characters will be saved into the file correctly - perhaps converting it into HTML-like notation for example?
Obviously I am assuming the end user will have the correct encoding set in their web browser, I just want to make sure I got it all covered from my end.
I am using Notepad++ on Windows to edit my PHP file.
Thanks!
If you want to tell browsers your encoding, place it inside your <header> tag:
<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=utf-8'>
Or short version
<meta charset='utf-8'>
That should be pretty enough for Russian characters to be correctly displayed on a webpage.
if your doctype is html declare <meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=UTF-8'> but if your doctype is xhtml then declare <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />.Never assume that end-user will act correctly during your designsIf you already have some document, edit your document's meta tag for charset declaration and use notepad++ encoding>convert to UTF-8 without BOM, save your document, safely go on with your multilingual structure from now on.php tag is irrelevant for your question since you don't mention about any database char setting.
There is no difference between Latin and Cyrillic characters in UTF-8. Both are just byte sequences. Configure your server or PHP script to send Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf, and you are rather safe.
Your editor might have problems when the font you are using does not contain Russian characters. Choose another font then.
And please ignore the <meta> element recommendations. You don't need that: it is useless when your HTTP headers are correct, and maybe harmful if they aren’t.
Well you have to check 2 things
To ensure that *.php is an UTF-8 file I use PSPad. If file is not in UTF-8, I save
it like that: http://stepolabs.com/upload/utf-8.png
Then your website must have UTF-8 encoding in <meta> tag;
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
... more about metatagging.
Finally if everything is done well - (format and meta declaration) all should be displayed properly!
i am working on php. in my index.php page i have included right.php. right.php contains greek text. index.php has the html headers. the greek text are not showing correctly. when i open the right.php file in dreamweaver and save the page, it gives warning about the text. what can i do to solve this? because right.php has common contents which is used in many pages.
This is all to do with the content type of your pages. Most likely you are trying to save / display the text in latin1 format which doesn't support the characters you are trying to display.
The most sensible thing to do is convert everything to UTF-8. If you're manually editing the text then ensure your text editor (i.e. Dreamweaver) is set to save the files as UTF-8 and then ensure you have the following meta tag on your page
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
Make sure you are saving your files as UTF-8 encoding (check preferences in DreamWeaver to find file encoding). Also make sure your HTML <head> tags include charset similar to this: <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
You can use a different character set if you prefer, but UTF-8 supports the entire Unicode character space, so it's pretty safe.
You have to set file encoding to utf-8 and set it also in <meta> charset tag in <head> HTML.