Header says UTF-8 but accents not showing up properly - why? (php)

Question

I abstracted the header from a larger set of php files for clarity. When I load it into Wampserver, the <p>é</p> appears as � on the site, despite the header calling for utf-8 charset. What is wrong in this document?

(Note that I tried to modify the encoding by replacing iso-8859-1 with utf-8, that didn't help.)

header.php:

<?php
    header('Content-Type:text/html; charset=UTF-8');
    echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>'
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">
    <head>
        <title>Blabla</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p>é</p>
    </body>
</html>

Do you have utf-8 set in the editor in which you edit the file as well? — Andre Backlund, Mar 29 '11 at 11:41
Is the file saved in the correct encoding? Have you tried to add the Content-Type meta element? — Albireo, Mar 29 '11 at 11:41
Why are you sending contradicting character set info? That can't work. It needs to be one or the other. — Pekka, Mar 29 '11 at 11:43

score 15 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 29 '11 at 11:42

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try this<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/> in the head section

and also check your file encoding

answered Mar 29 '11 at 11:42

Headshota

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Problem was the file encoding (it was ANSI), so this takes care of it. Thanks! – JDelage Mar 29 '11 at 12:00
Adding the following line in the html works for me: . NOTE: Make sure your text file encoding is Default (determined from content: Cp1252) – Supercoder Nov 21 '20 at 21:15

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 29 '11 at 11:52

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You are sending two contradicting character sets, iso-8859-1 and utf-8.

If you

fix that and send only one character set, and
encode the actual file in the character set you specify (there should be a character set option in your IDE's or editor's "Save as..." dialog)

it should work.

answered Mar 29 '11 at 11:52

Pekka

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@JDelage you're welcome. But do also fix the contradiction, it may give you problems in the long term – Pekka Mar 29 '11 at 12:01
Yes, but I had tried it and it had not solved the problem, whereas encoding the actual PHP file in Notepad++ does solve things. – JDelage Mar 29 '11 at 13:24

Benbiga Badr · Answer 3 · 2017-07-28T16:07:22.167

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this worked for me : I add to the MVC COntroller : produces={"application/json;charset=utf-8"}

edited Jul 28 '17 at 16:07

answered Jul 27 '17 at 13:50

Benbiga Badr

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Header says UTF-8 but accents not showing up properly - why? (php)

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