-----Original Message----- From: Ford, Mike [mailto:M.Ford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 17 April 2008 12:25 To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: FRench characters not displayed correctly On 17 April 2008 10:05, Robert Cummings advised: > On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 10:57 +0200, Angelo Zanetti wrote: >> >> 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? > > No, that's what kind of content the server is willing to accept from > various sources such as POST. Er, no, that's what kind of content the browser is prepared to accept back from the server -- the headers starting from the GET line are what the browser sends to the server as part of the request. The lines starting at the HTTP/1.x line are what the server returns. In this case, you're getting a 304 Not Modified, which means the server is not even serving any content on this request, nor, probably, even a full set of headers -- it's just telling the browser it can use its cached page. To be absolutely sure what the relevant headers are, you need to force the server to send the full page -- usually, the best way to do this is to hold down the Ctrl key whilst clicking the Refresh/Reload button. Incidentally, I notice that what's being served here is a .html page, and the presence of a 304 response, and no PHP headers, suggests it actually is plain HTML, and not a disguised script, so this whole thread is really very OT...!! ;) However, this being the case, it suggests you have a static .html file on your site claiming to be charset=utf-8, but not saved in UTF-8! There are two obvious ways to solve this: (i) convert the file into UTF-8, or (ii) edit it to have the correct charset= value in the tag. ---------------------- Mike, thanks very much I have done a ctrl+F5 And have the following: ---------------------------------------------------------- http://fr.xxxxx.com/student/themes/english/locker_room/student.html GET /student/themes/english/locker_room/student.html HTTP/1.1 Host: fr.xxxxx.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: 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.xxxxxx.com/student/themes/english/locker_room/student.html Cookie: PHPSESSID=5d5af707c9c34205d30708326872ad27 Pragma: no-cache Cache-Control: no-cache HTTP/1.x 200 OK Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:34:10 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.55 (Unix) PHP/5.1.2 Last-Modified: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:40:26 GMT Etag: "6b97e-a9d-619b9e80" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 2717 Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=198 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/html I can now see that the response is a 200 OK response. So basically to get these pages to serve the French characters correctly would I need to do the following: (i) convert the file into UTF-8, or (ii) edit it to have the correct charset= value in the tag. When you refer to charset are you referring to: iso-8859-1 or UTF-8? (iii) Also would I need to send the PHP headers as follows: header( 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' ); (iv) Also does the fact that there is no <DOCTYPE> declaration have any impact on the showing of the French characters? Anyone who feels like that are able to comment on the above please assist, as it is greatly appreciated. Thanks Angelo -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
