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!
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I have a problem when extract arabic text from pdf.
I use PdfToText library
The text appears in this figure (ΎϬϧϟυϔΣϟΦϳέΎΗ ΏϟΎρϟϡϳΩϘΗΝΫϭϣϧ ΩϳϘϟϡϗέ)
How can i solve it ? i tried
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
but this did not solve my problem
English letters are part of basic ASCII char set so the output is usually without any problems however any other languages using various accents or even different letters, ie. Arabic, Azbuka, Greek, etc. uses letters out of the basic set.
Make sure all three sources are using same encoding:
all the PHP scripts generating the output
the HTML encoding meta tag
the output file as well
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Check your editor how it saves the PHP scripts to the file system. The way how to set it up differs from each editor
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Use HTML meta tag <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
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define the encoding to use UTF-8 for example: pdftotext -enc UTF-8 your.pdf. According to the documentation the PdfToText class generates UTF8-encoded text.
I have a problem of special character writing on my website coded in PHP (data from database and normal writing html)
Code :
code in Sublime text
Result :
result in web
I have in my header :
‹meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"›
It's important that your entire line code has the same charset to avoid issues where characters displays incorrectly.
There are quite a few settings that needs to be properly defined and I'd strongly recommend UTF-8, as this has most letters you would need (Scandinavian, Greek, Arabic).
Here's a little list of things that has to be set to a specific charset.
Headers
Setting the charset in both HTML and PHP headers to UTF-8
PHP: header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
(PHP headers has to be placed before any kind output (echo, whitespace, HTML))
HTML: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
(HTML-headers are placed within the <head> / </head> tag)
File-encoding
It might also be needed for the file itself to be UTF-8 encoded. If you're using Notepad++ to write your code, this can be done in the "Format" drop-down on the taskbar. You should use UTF-8 w/o BOM (see this SO).
Other
Some specific functions have the attribute of a specific charset, and if you are using such functions, it should be specified there as well. Read the documentation for each function.
Should you follow all of the pointers above, chances are your problem will be solved. If not, you can take a look at this StackOverflow post: UTF-8 all the way through.
’ is being displayed instead of - in php page
I tried using different encoding types like:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"/>
and
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
but result is the same. What could be the problem?
Input
<strong style="color:#A8A8A8;">1</strong> – Lorem Ipsum.
Result
1 – Lorem Ipsum.
Make sure your html header specifies utf8
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
That usually does the trick for me (obviously if the content IS utf8).
You don't need to convert to html entities if you set the content-type.
check http://php.net/manual/en/function.mb-convert-encoding.php
<?php
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
mb_internal_encoding('utf-8');
?>
may be this will help you.
It looks like your source data is converted from one to another encoding along the way. Try to make sure ALL steps have the same encoding.
Is your (MySQL?) data stored as UTF8?
Is your .php file saved as UTF8?
Conversion errors like this usually pop up when handling UTF8 data as ISO-8859-1 data. (multibyte vs singlebyte? not sure).
The fact that the meta tag doesn't change the output is a strong indicator that there's something overriding it; probably it's the charset specified in the HTTP header (which has precedence over the meta tag), are you sure you're not setting it there?
Your document is most likely encoded in UTF-8 since – is the iso-8859-1 presentation of the UTF-8 encoded character –.
What you need is the meta-tag you describe:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
Since it isn't working, the tag might to be ignored. Suggestion is to use the browser and check what encoding it tries to use (Tools - Encoding in Chrome).
If the browser uses UTF-8, you have double-encoded the characters. Check your code if so that you don't have an excessive utf8_encode(...)
If the browser uses Latin1 (iso-8859-1) your tag is ignored or overridden by the HTTP header. Try to validate your HTML with an online validator. Check the sent header information with your browser's development tool to make sure iso-8859-1 is not set as encoding.
Had the same problem when creating a file from javacode and setting the encoding to UTF-16 did the trick.
This may be a stupid question but its not a matter of what I can find, its a matter that I dont know what to search for. There are some special characters that don't show correctly in php. I'm taking some information from an xml file, and echo-ing them.
ie:
should be -> Nürnberg
echoes as -> Nürnberg
any tips on what to look for, or how to resolve this?
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
You simply have an encoding mismatch. Get up to speed with these articles:
What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs To Know About Encodings And Character Sets To Work With Text
Handling Unicode Front To Back In A Web App
try a different character set on the page you're echoing from
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_charactersets.asp
Can you try with following meta tag in your HTML head.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
There is a mismatch between the character encoding of your XML and what you are outputting from PHP. Most likely, one is UTF-8 and one is ISO-8859.
On the PHP side, you can set this with a header directive
<?php
header('Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1');
header('Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8');
?>
and/or in the outputted HTML
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
On the XML side, most quality text editors allow you to specify the character encoding as you save the file. (E.g. WordWrangler on Mac)
If the XML file is indeed in ISO-8859, you could use utf8_encode() to convert it to UTF-8 as you read it in.
An in-depth discussion of PHP and character encoding.
"I'm taking some information from an xml file, and echo-ing them."
Windows command line doesn't support utf8 properly as it doesn't use an UTF8 font.
Just put the file into somewhere that's reachable through a web server and test it by calling the file through the web server.
Alternatively pipe the output of the script into a text file:
php test.php > output.txt
And either open output.txt is a UTF8 capable editor or use a utf8 capable 'Tail' program.
Test.php
<?php
echo "Nürnberg";
?>
Running from command prompt:
php test.php
Nürnberg
Calling through a web server http://localhost/test.php
Nürnberg
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.