PHP Making Application Compatible With Other Language Characters

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I have created a small contact form creator in PHP and everything works fine for me, but my friend in Denmark says the forms don't display danish characters properly and won't submit when Danish characters are used. I have never worked with internationalization and the PHP manual doesn't help me at all.

How can I make my PHP applications be compatible with other language characters. I work with PHP 5.3.x and my files are created with utf-8 without bom and everything in my pages and database are utf-8. Is there an article you can recommend that a beginner can understand?

Thank you!

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html - not enough, but still usefull for beginners. BTW author of this article is also author of this site ;-) — kirilloid, Apr 12 '12 at 22:16

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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1.Add meta charset on your page

2.Serve Content-Type:text/html; charset=utf-8 in header

3.Use set names for mysql, see SET NAMES utf8 in MySQL?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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answered Apr 12 '12 at 22:17

Artjom Kurapov

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 12 '12 at 22:34

Seems you have everything that needs to be, but clearly there's some little thing probably one of the things that you think that is in place.

Whatever, as a last resort, you can use php's htmlspecialchars() function to encode all chars into html entities.

PHP Making Application Compatible With Other Language Characters

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