Thanks for the reply Jean-Christian. I'm using IE5+ and NS4+.
I did not save the file in UTF-8 format. After trying that though what happens is odd characters appear on the first line of my page. I am guessing from the UTF-8 signature character or something. Also the characters do not appear correctly in NS4. page.php: <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Language" content="ja"> </head> <body>Home:<br> <?php include("lng_page_ja.php"); echo "home in japanese:"; echo "<br><br>$home"; ?> </body> </html> I then have an include file with the Japanese text assigned to the variable $home. lng_page_ja.php: <?php $home = "ホーãƒ"; ?> Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote: > Dennis Browne wrote: > > > > $home = "$B%[!<(B?"; > That didn't come out right in the email. Are you sure you saved your > file in UTF-8 format? > > Why? > Is your browser detecting that the page is in UTF-8? Manually set you > browser's page encoding to UTF-8 and see if that makes a difference? > What browser are you using? > Jean-Christian Imbeault -- PHP Internationalization Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php