Christophe Chisogne wrote: Christophe Chisogne wrote:
> Likely an encoding problem : latin1 (iso-8859-1) vs Unicode (utf-8) > > Check display diffs with display/encoding menu on firefox > -- french Affichage/Encodage des caractères Yeah, I checked that. The very same Firefox is working fine with the data on the shared hosting, but not with my local system. To pin this down, I spent some time getting the existing site (ie, the one currently working on the shared hosting) working on my local system (wasn't easy, because I've made loads of changes to tables for the new version of the site). The result? Garbled characters. So - the exact same PHP code, MySQL tables and browser work with the shared hosting but not the local system. I knew upgrading to SuSE 9.1 was going to give me grief :-) And that brings me to: > You can use the mozilla/firefox livehttpheaders tool [8] to check > which encoding is used by the Apache server. Shoud be latin1/iso-8859-1, > not utf-8, utf-16 etc > > Avoid pblms by > > - telling mysql server to use latin1 encoding I'd come to the conclusion it must be a problem in my Apache/PHP/MySQL setup, as that's the only difference between the two cases. So looks like it's not a PHP issue after all - so sorry about the wasted bandwidth. That said, MySQL is already configured to use latin1 and Apache2 seems to be set to iso-8859-1 (according to /etc/apache2/mod_mime-defaults.conf - can't find another config file with any encoding setting). Hmmm. > - Better html code in (generated?) html, like this > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; > charset=iso-8859-1"> Already do that, though I tend to use iso-8859-15, which I understand is pretty much the same with added euro support. So, merci bien for a very useful response - I've printed it so I can go through all the things you suggest. Much appreciated. -- @+ Steve -- PHP Internationalization Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
