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:
mysql_select_db("****") and mysql_query("set names utf8") and
mysql_query("SET collation_connection = 'utf8_general_ci'");
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:
# 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
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:
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>
And everything started to work great and in UTF-8
! (this method was used in next post)