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srisar
srisar

Reputation: 1571

Unicode fonts in php page in web browser showing as ? marks, how can i correct it?

Im developing a website with some indian unicode characters, I have xampp installed on my pc and when I test on my local server, unicode characters are showing fine, but when i upload it to web server all the unicode characters are showing like ?? marks....

My web server is Linux based, So Can anybody help....

This is from my website:

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This is from my local web server:

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Upvotes: 4

Views: 2859

Answers (3)

Dr.Molle
Dr.Molle

Reputation: 117314

Be sure that your server uses UTF8 as default-charset(maybe you'll need to modify the server-settings).

AddDefaultCharset utf-8

Put the line above to your httpd.conf(if possible...then restart the server) or to a .htaccess-file on the top-level of the DOCUMENT_ROOT(no restart needed)

Declaring the charset via the meta-tag will not be sufficient, it will be overridden by the charset-header(if any exists) sent by the server.

You also can send the header from within your scripts:

<?php header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); ?>

Upvotes: 2

Han Seoul-Oh
Han Seoul-Oh

Reputation: 1266

You need to declare the character set is UTF-8 in your HTTP headers, the way to do that depends on your server: http://www.w3.org/International/O-HTTP-charset

If you don't feel like configuring your web server you can also use a <meta http-equiv> tag in the <head> of your web page, which can be equivalent to an HTTP header.

Upvotes: 0

user456814
user456814

Reputation:

Make sure you declare your charset as utf-8 in your html, like in this example from the Mozilla docs:

<!-- Defining the charset in HTML4 -->
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

<!-- In HTML5 -->
<meta charset="utf-8">

Upvotes: 0

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