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How can I define the character set for a page?

Aug 24th, 2006 15:28
Bazil Hassan, Nathan Wallace, Nick M

Use a PHP command like:

    <?
        // set your charset in $mycharset
        header("Content-type: text/html; charset=$mycharset");
    ?>

and make sure you are using full ISO charsets.

If you want to use UTF-8 encoding make sure to remove BOM from the
begining of the php file saved in UTF-8 encoding. BOM is the first 3
bytes of the file. You need to have a hex editor to perform this
operation because most of the text editors hide it from you.