RE: FRench characters not displayed correctly

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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Cummings [mailto:robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 17 April 2008 10:38
To: Angelo Zanetti
Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  FRench characters not displayed correctly


On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 09:47 +0200, Angelo Zanetti wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> We have taken over a site and a problem we have is that French special
> characters aren't displaying correctly, they are displaying a weird square
> block.
> 
> I have checked the content type and it's as follows: 
> 
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" >
> 
> I also notice that the "charset=iso-8859-1" is missing in the above meta
> tag, could this be affecting the characters?

You certainly wouldn't want both utf-8 and iso-8859-1 declared at the
same time. It sounds like what you want is iso-8859-1 and NOT utf-8.
Check the encoding of either your files or your database content. Also
check what headers PHP is sending to the browser. If you're using
Firefox you can check the page info to see what charset it thinks it
received.

Cheers,
Rob.
-- 


Thanks Robert, 

I have the following headers:


http://fr.xxxx.com/student/themes/english/locker_room/student.html

GET /student/themes/english/locker_room/student.html? HTTP/1.1
Host: fr.xxxx.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14)
Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Accept:
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=
0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://fr.xxxx.com/student/themes/english/locker_room/student.html
Cookie: PHPSESSID=818678404c170c8e4f5d237c1d0280a8
If-Modified-Since: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:40:26 GMT
If-None-Match: "6b97e-a9d-619b9e80"
Cache-Control: max-age=0

HTTP/1.x 304 Not Modified
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:31:32 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.55 (Unix) PHP/5.1.2
Connection: Keep-Alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=200
Etag: "6b97e-a9d-619b9e80"
-----------------------------


Now I see that the headers have: 

Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7

Which to me seems like it is sending both ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8? 

What else should I be checking for? 

Could it be a PHP problem where PHP isn't decoding the characters properly?

Thanks again.


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