Problems in characters of non-English language

GirishR

Hello all,

When reading a file contents(html or any) using PHP how are we suppose to process the characters that are not in English alphabet?

Unfortunatly this message editor of vBulletin is converting all non English character to ? but i have tried to give a example below

For example in Wspólnie pa?dziernika (i think its Polish), characters like ó,? are treated as ?(was suppose to be a square rather that a ?) when PHP is used to read them from a file. Is there a simple fix for it?

I hope I have made myself clear.

Thanks
Girish R

sid

funny - i just actually took care of an email bug like this 2 minutes ago:

i usually use [man]utf8_encode[/man] for this - make sure to set the html encoding to utf8 too (you can google the correct meta tag - i cant think of it completely from the top of my head right now. its also very useful for javascript outputs.

GirishR

Thanks Sid

so according to you

$utf_word = "Wspólnie";
print utf8_encode ($utf_word);

should work print Wspólnie with ó. Ok

So then why do u think vBulletin or PHPBB is not doing that.