default charset

[digitalecartoon]

When not specifying the charset in a php script, which one is used by default? A php server seems to have a default charset setting (see phpinfo below of my host's server).

php core
default_charset	no value\

Apache Environment
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET 	ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7

HTTP Headers Information
Accept-Charset 	ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7

HTTP Headers Information
Content-Type 	text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

Though this one seems to have a default charset setting of none, does the http headers information mean that any website or php script accessed with the browser's address bar gets a iso 8859-1 by default anyway?

[bradgrafelman]

If PHP doesn't have a default charset set, then it won't tell Apache a specific charset. Thus, Apache will default to its own default setting.

[digitalecartoon]

"PHP assumes that strings are ISO-8859-1"

Is this true? Can't find anything about in on www.php.net

[YAOMK]

Please don't open multiple threads for the same issue:
http://phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10347007