Re: UTF-8 problem with Apache

Rasmus Lerdorf <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.php.internationalization
Message-ID <Pine.LNX.4.58.0409062354410.1473@t42p>
Which content-type is being sent?

For PHP generated content, you can set this using default_charset in your
php.ini file.

-Rasmus

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Ian Eure wrote:

> I'm about to start on a project which will be translated into several
> languages; English, French, German, Spanish, and Japanese. Because of these
> requirements, I'm using UTF-8 for all languages.
>
> Unfortunately, I'm having some problems with multibyte characters; they show
> up as question marks when viewing a page.
>
> I'm not sure why this is happening. Sniffing the HTTP response shows that
> the characters are literal ASCII question marks.
>
> Further testing seems to indicate that this is an Apache issue; running the
> same stuff with the PHP binary from a Unicode-aware XTerm works fine. I set
> AddDefaultCharset to utf-8 in my httpd.conf, but that didn't work.
>
>
> I have observed identical behavior with:
>
> Debian sarge (current as of right now)
> PHP 4.3.8-9
> Apache 1.3.31-5
>
> Debian woody
> PHP 4.1.2-7.0.1
> Apache 1.3.26-0woody5
>
> Does anyone know what's wrong here?
>
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> Ian Eure
> Lead Developer,
> WebSprockets, LLC.
>
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