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Currently my site supports English, portuguese, swedish and polish. But for some reason some polish characters dont show right, like Zal�z konto it should look like this Zalóz konto

I have this

// Send the Content-type header in case the web server is setup to send something else
header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

and inside <head>

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
Remy
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    From where you get polish texts? If from database you need to set also database encoding after mysql_connect function. – antyrat Jul 20 '10 at 15:59
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    Where is your data coming from? Database? Make sure the connection is set to UTF-8 (SET NAMES for MySQL). Hard-coded? Make sure you save the file with UTF-8 encoding. – igorw Jul 20 '10 at 16:00
  • thanks! i saved the file with utf8 – Remy Jul 20 '10 at 16:24

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You need to convert your string to UTF8 also.

utf8_encode() does not check what encoding your string was in, and sometimes it gives you a messed up string, so I made a function called Encoding::toUTF8() to do this right.

You dont need to know what the encoding of your strings is. It can be Latin1 (iso 8859-1), Windows-1252 or UTF8, or the string can have a mix of them. Encoding::toUTF8() will convert everything to UTF8.

I did it because a service was giving me a feed of data all messed up, mixing those encodings in the same string.

Usage:

$utf8_string = Encoding::toUTF8($mixed_string);

$latin1_string = Encoding::toLatin1($mixed_string);

I've included another function, Encoding::fixUTF8(), wich will fix every UTF8 string that looks garbled product of having been encoded into UTF8 multiple times.

Usage:

$utf8_string = Encoding::fixUTF8($garbled_utf8_string);

Examples:

echo Encoding::fixUTF8("Fédération Camerounaise de Football");
echo Encoding::fixUTF8("Fédération Camerounaise de Football");
echo Encoding::fixUTF8("FÃÂédÃÂération Camerounaise de Football");
echo Encoding::fixUTF8("Fédération Camerounaise de Football");

will output:

Fédération Camerounaise de Football
Fédération Camerounaise de Football
Fédération Camerounaise de Football
Fédération Camerounaise de Football

Download:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/186012/PHP/forceUTF8.zip

Sebastián Grignoli
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I start my header with: 

< head>
    < meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="pl" >
    < meta charset="UTF-8" >
    ...
< /head>
...

and all works fine.

Szpaqn
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if you retrieve the data from mysql database with php you should use this query before do anything..

mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8");

So data received from db will be properly encoded, if they was properly stored in it...

Marcx
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Alternatively you can use the iso-8859-1 standard:

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
Kit
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