Hi Ashley and Michiel, It appears it is something in Apache or my server program on Windows (I am using Uniform Server; a portable webserver from http://www.uniformserver.com). The reason I got to such a conclusion is this: 1. I uploaded the pHP file to a free hosting website. Here is the URL: http://blindmoviebuff.uphero.com/test2.php 2. I put the same page in my www folder in Windows. Here's the address to that: http://parham-d.dyndns.org/test2.php As you can see, the page on uphero.com displays without any encoding changes required by you, whereas the second has to be manual (for some reason). I thought seeing the UTF-8 made the browser use that encoding automatically regardless of whether or not it was sent in UTF-8? Sorry, I have no information at all about how transmiting is handled. Just saying guesses aloud. :-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ashley Sheridan" <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Newsgroups: php.general To: "Michiel Sikma" <michiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Parham Doustdar" <parham90@xxxxxxxxx>; <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 6:16 PM Subject: Re: Question: Farsi characters showing as jibberish > On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 15:38 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: > >> On 24 April 2010 14:45, Parham Doustdar <parham90@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have created a PHP file, and wrote a string of Farsi letters in it. >> > In >> > the >> > head section of the HTML, I put: >> > >> > <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> >> > >> > There appears to be something wrong with Apache, or something, because >> > no >> > matter whether I put that string in an echo statement or just in an >> > HTML >> > with a php extention, the page loads as jibberish and I have to set the >> > character encoding to UTF-8 manually in Firefox. >> > >> > Renaming that same file to .htm (when not using the echo statement), >> > and >> > loading it in the browser shows me the correct Farsi characters. >> > >> > Should I change something in Apache's settings for this to work? >> > >> > Thanks! >> > >> > >> > No, that should work perfectly fine. Are you sure that the PHP file >> > itself >> is utf-8? >> Could it be that you manually set the text encoding to something else in >> your browser, causing it to remember that setting? >> >> Perhaps you could link us to the page itself so we can have a look. Note >> that the best place to put that <meta> tag is right after the opening >> <head> >> tag, before any other header information. >> >> Michiel > > > If renaming the file as .htm shows the characters correctly, then > the .php file is most likely saved as utf8. > > Maybe Apache has been instructed to send all HTML with another encoding, > as it should send it out with the same encoding as the requested PHP > script. > > Thanks, > Ash > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
