Encoding in PHP files

[s0me0ne]

I keep getting spam from someone that types in Russian. So i was going to mark any comments I get SPAM that have the following characters

лийпэя

However, I was wondering, do I have to save the PHP file as UTF-8? Because right now notepad++ saves them as ANSI and so if I paste in those characters it just shows question marks.

Also will it work if saved in UTF-8, because I thought only PHP6 supports unicode. 😕

[djjjozsi]

i think you just have to search in notepad++ to save as another coding.
these editors could save :
pspad, dreamweaver , PHPEdit knows utf8 encoding,

hello,
jjozsi