[RESOLVED] Problem with special characters

[chrisguk]

Hi,

I have this code and text in my .php file:

$login_error = "Der Benutzername und das eingegebene Passwort ist ungültig.";

But the output is not displayed because of the "ü" in the text. Is there anyway I can get this to display correctly?

[bradgrafelman]

Make sure you've set the correct character encoding (UTF-8 perhaps?) for the page being displayed.

[chrisguk]

bradgrafelman;10999215 wrote:

Make sure you've set the correct character encoding (UTF-8 perhaps?) for the page being displayed.

Hi I did that and now the output is :

ungültig

and it should be:

ungültig

[Bonesnap]

You can use the HTML entities equivalent: ü

And for uppercase: Ü

[chrisguk]

I tried that, because it is inside quotes the HTML codes will not work. If you see my first post

[traq]

chrisguk;10999218 wrote:

Hi I did that and now the output is :

ungültig

and it should be:

ungültig

Did you send a UTF-8 HTTP Header (e.g., using [man]header[/man]), or just set the HTML <meta> tag? It really needs to be the former. If your server is declaring some other charset in the page headers, browsers will ignore the charset in your meta tag.

Another issue to consider is what charset your script is actually saved in. Your result above would definitely indicate that it's saved in one charset and being displayed using another.

[chrisguk]

Perfect solution, many thanks for your help

[Bonesnap]

chrisguk;10999224 wrote:

I tried that, because it is inside quotes the HTML codes will not work. If you see my first post

That's not true at all. This:

echo "Der Benutzername und das eingegebene Passwort ist ungültig.";

Will output:

Der Benutzername und das eingegebene Passwort ist ungültig.

[traq]

Unless, maybe, it's displayed as text (e.g., a title attribute or a JavaScript alert)?

[Bonesnap]

traq;10999286 wrote:

Unless, maybe, it's displayed as text (e.g., a title attribute or a JavaScript alert)?

It renders just fine in a title attribute (it's still HTML). It doesn't in a JavaScript alert but the OP didn't mention JavaScript.