On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 12:23 +1300, German Geek wrote: > 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 > > > > If the source has been saved with literal ? characters, then you may need to add them all over again. I'm assuming though that the source is fine, as it's working on your test server. Have you tried altering the character encoding through a meta tag? I had this issue where it was showing ? characters until I changed the meta tag to utf-8. Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
