Do they show up as ? just in the web page or in the source returned? Did you check the source of the page? I had this problem before and as far as i remember, i just needed to encode them like oe (have an american keyboard ;-) ö etc. If it's a literal ? in the source, it's PHP and you might need to set your php.ini in some way to support your character set. Have a look into Unicode as well. I haven't had this problem for a while since i don't live in Germany anymore, but i'm sure i will probably come across this some day ;-). Good luck! Regards, Tim Tim-Hinnerk Heuer http://www.ihostnz.com On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:37 AM, Merlin Morgenstern <merlin_x@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Hi there, > > I recently upgraded on my prod system from php 4.x to the newest php > version. Now german characters lik "Ö" show up as ?. I have the same setup > running on a test server, where the characters show up OK. After searching > on Google I found that there is an entry in the php.ini: > default_charset = "iso-8859-1" which could help me, however this is not set > in the test environment! How come? Is there another way to fix this? > > Kind regards,Merlin > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
