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Re: [PHP] PHP charset encoding From: Ma Siva Kumar (tech <email protected>)
Date: 03/30/04

On Tuesday 30 March 2004 19:31, Rob Ellis
wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 11:23:03AM +0300,
nabil wrote:
> > When submitting a data from an HTML page
> > and inserting them in MySQL: what
> > encoding they will be ?
> > is it the page encoding?
> > the field size like VARCHAR 15 won't fit
> > the same in both encoding for the same
> > text. !!
> > Is the font any relation with encoding?
> > phpmyadmin doesn't support UTF-8 so
> > dumping your data using it will screw it
> > up.... is it a way to convert it inside
> > the database...
> >
> > Explain to me please , or if you can
> > tell me where to find my answers (not
> > google)
>
> if the page that the input form is on sets
> utf-8 as the content type, then most (?)
> browsers will send utf-8. you can use a
> meta tag like:
>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
> content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
>

What we have done in a similar situation is
to set the client encoding in php.ini as
below and this solved the same problems as
you describe:
==================================
default_mimetype = "text/html"
default_charset = "utf-8"
=================================

Hope this helps.

Best regards, 

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Ma Siva Kumar,
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Chennai - 600106

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