From:             [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Operating system: Any
PHP version:      4.0.5
PHP Bug Type:     Unknown/Other Function
Bug description:  HTML encoding problem

There definately seems to be a problem using any operating system I've
tried (Linux Debian, RedHat, Windows 98, Windows 2000). The problem is that
the following piece of HTML:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;
charset=windows-1251">
.......

will somehow be ignored, i.e. the document will not have this encoding set,
instead ISO-8859-1 will be used. The biggest problem is that if try to
change the encoding in the browser it won't change it, even though the
browser will show it changed or if it changes it (very rare), after you
reload the page the encoding is set back to ISO-8859-1, even though the
browser always shows that the encoding is changed. This happens for all
files that are processed by the php engine. I've correctly set the encoding
option in the php.ini, even though it is always best for php, not to set
this at all, since if you're using a remote server, for example hosting you
site in the USA, but the page is in cyrillic, your php pages will never
display properly. Probably the best thing is to leave the encoding up to
the HTML headers set by each page.

My workaround for this problem is (it always works correctly):
<?
  include "set_encoding.inc";
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;
charset=windows-1251">
........

where set_encoding.inc, contains in my case the following:
  header("Content-type: text/html;charset=windows-1251");
  header("Content-Language: bg");


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Edit bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=11951&edit=1


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