$body = htmlentities($body); AAAHHHHHHH

[phpnerd]

Hello
I am assuming cos you are reading this then you are well clever !!! cos the truth is I'm not(well not at this sort of stuff)
Someone kindly gave me this little bit of script for this problem:-
I have a contact page php and a html contact form everything works very well except when someone writes in chinese(don't worry I expect this as I have lots of chinese friends) however the email I receive is all rubbish
Now this little script is the answer to my prayers (apparantly) but I don't have the foggyest idea what to do with it !!!! PLEASE help me..
Gibby

[shref]

mmm may you can use UTF-8 encoding

[phpnerd]

aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh

You are all very clever people who know what you are talking about
If you tell me I need something- please also tell me how to do it

I BEG YOU.... :'(

[phpnerd]

What is utf-8 ?

[REMIYA]

Set the encoding of your page as UTF-8, and also specify the form to accept its input and send the output in UTF-8. Then it'll be OK.

Hope it helps

[phpnerd]

OK this is great ... I know believe that this can be done - now the problem
I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING - I'M A NERD !!!!!!!
How do I encode the page to UTF-8 and what page or pages?
I have a page which is a html form and a php page that does the magic stuff....
How do I specify that the form can accept its input and then send the output in UTF-8. I know this sounds very simple to you guys but I really don't know a thing about writing scripts and stuff.
Gibby

[sonyc]

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
change the charset to UTF-8

[phpnerd]

Fantastic I can do this........
This is for html page.......YES
Do I do anything to the php page in the script?
Thank you so much for all your help

[REMIYA]

Just make the meta tag to UTF-8 like this:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

This has to do it