It is not the advice of mine, but it helped me enormously.
I’ve to accomplish the state when all of my pages are in UTF-8 encoding, but the DB is also OK.
That’s what helped me - combining this advice with one line in PHP code while connecting to the DB
MySQL + Apache + PHP + mb_string :)
In mysql, following to PHPMyAdmin everything was set to utf-8. But I had to correct this line in database connection line:
1 2 | mysql_select_db("****") and mysql_query("set names utf8") and
mysql_query("SET collation_connection = 'utf8_general_ci'");
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Then I’ve added inside all .htaccess files of all html/php folders (why I am doing these strange things - in that advise) the next lines:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 | # unicode support
AddDefaultCharset utf-8
<IfModule mod_charset.c>
CharsetDisable on
CharsetRecodeMultipartForms Off
</IfModule>
php_value mbstring.func_overload 7
php_value default_charset UTF-8
php_value mbstring.language Russian
php_value mbstring.internal_encoding UTF-8
php_flag mbstring.encoding_translation on
php_value mbstring.http_input "UTF-8,KOI8-R,CP1251"
php_value mbstring.http_output UTF-8
php_value mbstring.detect_order "UTF-8,KOI8-R,CP1251"
# end
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And, of course, I’ve re-encoded all my pages and php-files in UTF-8 (used PSPad).
And in HTML-pages I’ve added this, just be on the safe side:
1 2 3 | <head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>
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And everything started to work great and in UTF-8! (this method was used in next post)
