On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 18:37 +0430, Parham Doustdar wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > Try adding this before any output to the browser: header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); Which should force the server to send the output in this specific format. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
