Having problem with UTF-8 encoding

[bikramshr]

I have a php page that uses Nepali Unicode fonts. I have included meta tag as <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">. The page is displayed correctly when hosted in IIS 5.0 with php engine. However it is not displayed correctly when hosted upon Red hat Linux 9.0/apache/php. I have to select View>Encoding>UTF-8 from the menu bar of the browser then the page is displayed correctly. The url of page is http://69.65.20.26/nepali/kolnews.php?nid=11074. I am expecting some help from this forum.

[MarkR]

Ensure that you're sending a Content-type header telling it the page is in UTF-8.

In any case you should not use UTF-8 with PHP because it doesn't understand it.

None of the PHP string handling is written to deal with unicode / UTF8 correctly, so in general it will corrupt UTF8 strings.

If you need to use UTF8 for your web site, I STRONGLY RECOMMEND that you don't use PHP. Its designers were just entirely ignorant of any encoding issues whatsoever, and assumed the entire world used 8bit character sets.

Mark