How to insert characters like ä or ü in a PHP file

**Markus** · Nov 13 '10, 02:38 PM

The page displaying those characters needs to tell the browser to use a decent encoding. Use UTF-8 for your content-type header.

Code:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" dir="ltr"> 
<head> 
<title>Chinese character - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title> 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
</head>

<body>
<?php
echo "汉字 / 漢字;";
?>
</body>
</html>

**Harm Millaard** · Nov 13 '10, 07:18 PM

Thanks for the effort, but ultimately it was even simpler:

Use the code for ü like this: "ü" or for ä like "ä" without the quotes of course. So basically it is:

& + the letter + uml; to give the letter with an umlaut.

**Markus** · Nov 14 '10, 01:07 PM

Sure, but there aren't html entities for every foreign character.

How to insert characters like ä or ü in a PHP file

How to insert characters like ä or ü in a PHP file

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