[Techtalk] php help

Thu May 30 05:33:09 UTC 2013

iconv is your friend. iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 filename
>properly_encoded_file


hth,
Eeva


2013/5/30 Maria McKinley <mariak at mariakathryn.net>

> Ugh, yes. It appears emacs has not been saving files as utf-8. Thanks so
> much. Now, I just need to figure out how to change the encodings of a bunch
> of files.
>
> thanks,
> maria
>
>
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi Maria,
> >
> > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Maria McKinley <mariak at mariakathryn.net
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Hi there!
> >>
> >> I am getting weird characters at the bottom of my php page outputs, and
> I
> >> can't figure out why. My searches tell me it is related to character
> >> encoding, but I can't figure out where else I could change the encoding.
> >>
> >> ella:~# echo $LANG
> >> en_US.UTF-8
> >>
> >> I've set encoding for utf-8 in /etc/apache2/conf.d/charset and php.ini
> >>
> >> To look at what I am talking about at the very bottom of this page are
> the
> >> weird characters:
> >>
> >> http://www.shadlenlab.columbia.edu/test.php
> >>
> >> This is a very simple php page:
> >>
> >> <html>
> >> <head>
> >> <title>PHP Test</title>
> >> </head>
> >> <body>
> >> <?php phpinfo(); ?>
> >> </body>
> >> </html>
> >>
> >> The characters do not show up on an html page with no php. Any ideas?
> >>
> >
> > Quick Answer:   You're telling the browser that what you're sending is
> > UTF-8, but it's really ISO-8859-1.
> >
> > Detail:  It seems the file was not saved as utf-8.   Check and verify
> > that your files are actually being saved as  "UTF-8" will produce the
> > desired results. No need to set header(); nor modifications in apaches
> > config or *.htaccess*. A silly mistake really, but a common one!
> >
> > Reference:
> >
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5445137/utf-8-encoded-html-pages-show-questions-marks-instead-of-characters
> >
> >
> >
> >> thanks,
> >> Maria
> >>
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