maybe look at iconv functions but the <meta> content-type is the only thing i set, and it works 100%fine. all javascripts, forms, etc. inherit it from the looks of itproperly. On 1/7/08, Olav Mørkrid <olav.morkrid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:> i specify iso-8859-1 in both header and body:>> <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>> <form action="/" method="post" accept-charset="iso-8859-1">>> if two different people post the norwegian phrase "Godt nytt år"> (happy new year), it may appear in the following variations:>> [CONTENT_TYPE] => application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=iso-8859-1> $_POST["input"] = "Godt nytt år">> [CONTENT_TYPE] => application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=utf-8> $_POST["input"] = "Godt nytt Ã¥r">> i was just wondering if php had some setting or function that would> make it auto-convert $_POST data into one specific encoding. otherwise> i seem forced to do something like this in the beginning of my php> script:>> if(ereg("utf-8", $_SERVER["CONTENT_TYPE"])) {> foreach($_POST as $key => $value)> $_POST["key"] = convert_utf8_to_iso8859($value);> }>> --> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php>>