Enabling special characters to be displayed?

[ElectrumGuy]

For some reason, special characters like "☻" and "▬" are not being displayed at all on the website. Is there a way to enable these?

[mehargags]

There are some steps to check here...

1. What is your file's Character Set Encoding? Some old html files can have ISO-8859-1 which you may need to convert to UTF-8

2. check your locales

[ElectrumGuy]

There are some steps to check here...

1. What is your file's Character Set Encoding? Some old html files can have ISO-8859-1 which you may need to convert to UTF-8

2. check your locales

Its PHP files, no encoding it see from what I can find.

Where do I look at the locales?

[mehargags]

Its PHP files, no encoding it see from what I can find.

All files use a charset, and check if you are using unix or dos format
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=check+file+for+unix+or+dos+format

Where do I look at the locales?

http://bfy.tw/8C5A

[ElectrumGuy]

Its PHP files, no encoding it see from what I can find.

All files use a charset, and check if you are using unix or dos format
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=check+file+for+unix+or+dos+format

Where do I look at the locales?

http://bfy.tw/8C5A

Locales returned:


LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=



charset for file is: charset=utf-8

[ElectrumGuy]

Any ideas?

[skurudo]

special characters in text like php/html or do you read data from mysql base for example?

[ElectrumGuy]

special characters in text like php/html or do you read data from mysql base for example?

The data is being read from mysql.

[mehargags]

The data is being read from mysql.

Check this Discussion... you need to set your Charset for Data pulled from MySQL

Code: Select all

mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8';", $link);
mysql_set_charset('utf8',$link);

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