On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Merlin Morgenstern wrote: > >> Hello everybody, >> >> I am having some trouble with utf-8 encoding. The html file containes >> chinese characters and looks ok, when opened in a browser. >> >> Now I want to extract some text from the file. In order to do this I >> do: >> >> $handle = fopen($file, "r"); >> $contents = fread($handle, filesize($file)); >> >> echo $contents; >> >> The chinese characters are gone by then. They show up as questinomarks >> or wired characters. To fix it I tried to add: >> >> $contents = utf8_decode($contents); >> header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8"); >> >> But still... no luck :-( >> >> Has somebody an idea why?? > > Check that the page really is displayed with the right encoding - in FF, > Ctrl-I. > > /Per > > > -- > Per Jessen, Zürich (16.6°C) A bit off topic, but Ctrl+I no longer brings up the Page Info in Firefox like it used to -- at least on my Windows computers. (It opens the bookmark list in the sidebar.) Does it do differently under Linux? Andrew -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php