Php, ISO-8859-1

[Nico]

Dear all,

I made a php page (charset: ISO-8859-1).
When I open this page in my localhost everything is OK.
On the contrary, if I open the page in my test web-site, I'm not able to
see the correct types (e.g. the symbol of Euro).
If I change the charset (from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1) by hand in my browser
I see all the types correctly.
I suppose that my apache is not settled correctly.
In the case, do you know what kind of command should I add (or change)?
Many thanks for the help.

Best,
Nico

[Erwin Moller]

Re: Php, ISO-8859-1

Nico wrote:

Dear all,
>
I made a php page (charset: ISO-8859-1).
When I open this page in my localhost everything is OK.
On the contrary, if I open the page in my test web-site, I'm not able to
see the correct types (e.g. the symbol of Euro).
If I change the charset (from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1) by hand in my browser
I see all the types correctly.
I suppose that my apache is not settled correctly.
In the case, do you know what kind of command should I add (or change)?
Many thanks for the help.
>
Best,
Nico

Hi Nico,

Just add a META-tag to your header in your document describing the
contenttype:

<META HTTP_EQUIV="Con tent-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[Nico]

Re: Php, ISO-8859-1

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Erwin Moller
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Nico wrote:
>

Dear all,

I made a php page (charset: ISO-8859-1).
When I open this page in my localhost everything is OK.
On the contrary, if I open the page in my test web-site, I'm not able to
see the correct types (e.g. the symbol of Euro).
If I change the charset (from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1) by hand in my browser
I see all the types correctly.
I suppose that my apache is not settled correctly.
In the case, do you know what kind of command should I add (or change)?
Many thanks for the help.

Best,
Nico

>
Hi Nico,
>
Just add a META-tag to your header in your document describing the
contenttype:
>
<META HTTP_EQUIV="Con tent-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
>
Regards,
Erwin Moller

Thanks for the suggestion. But I've already done this operation.
The problem is the following. All my web-site is done with UTF-8 and
Apache has UTF-8 defined as default. This new pages are done with
ISO-8859-1 code (now it's quite difficult to explain the reasons). So,
if I open the ISO pages, I'm not able to see correctly the types because
Apache says to my browser to open all the pages as UTF-8. Then, I've to
change manually the code on my browser. I don't know if it's possible to
add some line in my httpd conf, useful to solve this problem. Can you
help me please? Many thanks.

Best,
Nico

[John Dunlop]

Re: Php, ISO-8859-1

Nico:

I made a php page (charset: ISO-8859-1).
When I open this page in my localhost everything is OK.
On the contrary, if I open the page in my test web-site, I'm not able to
see the correct types (e.g. the symbol of Euro).

U+20AC is not available to ISO-8859-1. ITYM Windows-1252.

http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html

--
Jock

[Michael Fesser]

Re: Php, ISO-8859-1

..oO(Erwin Moller)

>Just add a META-tag to your header in your document describing the
>contenttype:
>
><META HTTP_EQUIV="Con tent-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

That's rather useless, because the real HTTP header will override it.
Better configure the server to send the appropriate content type.

Micha

[John Dunlop]

Re: Php, ISO-8859-1

Michael Fesser:

[Erwin Moller:]
>

<META HTTP_EQUIV="Con tent-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

>
That's rather useless, because the real HTTP header will override it.

I wouldn't say useless, not altogether. If HTTP is not used, then
the highest priority way of determining the Content-Type is
unavailable, and the next highest priority way according to HTML4.01 is
the META tag. HTTP would not be used, for example, if a document was
saved and opened later from the filesystem.

Better configure the server to send the appropriate content type.

Of course! But that doesn't stop you repeating yourself in a META
tag.

--
Jock

[John Dunlop]

Re: Php, ISO-8859-1

John Dunlop:

[a load of drivel]

You were, of course, not referring to the META tag in itself but
rather to the META tag as a solution to this particular problem. Fair
enough! I do beg your pardon, Michael.

--
Jock

[malatestapunk]

Re: Php, ISO-8859-1

You could also send an appropriate header from your script:

<?php header ("Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"); ?>

To be extra safe, I'd keep the META tag in the HTML too.

John Dunlop wrote:

Michael Fesser:
>

[Erwin Moller:]

><META HTTP_EQUIV="Con tent-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

That's rather useless, because the real HTTP header will override it.

>
I wouldn't say useless, not altogether. If HTTP is not used, then
the highest priority way of determining the Content-Type is
unavailable, and the next highest priority way according to HTML4.01 is
the META tag. HTTP would not be used, for example, if a document was
saved and opened later from the filesystem.
>

Better configure the server to send the appropriate content type.

>
Of course! But that doesn't stop you repeating yourself in a META
tag.
>
--
Jock