make unicode work in php

[runrunforest]

I encounter this problem, that i can not save a file with extension.php with unicode encoding character.

To be clearer, I am working dream weaver, I use language software to input my own language into html, which worked well, the dreamweaver can save the code correctly and the browser display it correctly.

However, when I type the language in file with php extension. The error message says "the document's current encoding can not correctly save all the characters within the document you may want to change it to UTF-8 or an encoding that support spacial characters in this document

As a result of that, browser screws up my text.

[Jake Arkinstall]

Well, you might have some characters which aren't supported by unicode.

As it says, try UTF instead.

[decowski]

Well, you might have some characters which aren't supported by unicode.

As it says, try UTF instead.

UTF-8 is part of Unicode standard so one can't be used instead of the other. I don't know Dreamweaver much at all and it really is Dreamweaver, not PHP, problem. Try looking in Dreamweaver's documentation, forums or contact support.

[Jake Arkinstall]

UTF is part of Unicode standard so one can't be used instead of the other

Gotcha.

@RunRunForest - is there a specific reason you want this encoding?

[kyberfabrikken]

Unicode is not an encoding. Unicode is a specification of characters. It's basically a pool of all characters, in any known language. It can be represented (encoded) in different ways. UTF-8 is one such encoding, which supports the full range unicode. ISO-8859-1 (Also known as latin1, and often confused with CP-1252) is a different encoding, which only supports a subset of unicode. ASCII is yet another encoding, which supports an even smaller subset of unicode. In order to write a character in your document, you need to use an encoding which supports that character. Since UTF-8 supports the full unicode range, it's usually a good choice, but a lot of applications still use ISO-8859-1, because it's enough for the English-speaking part of the world.

In your case, you are probably saving your documents in ISO-8859-1, since this is the default for php. You can save your file as UTF-8 instead. If you do that, you will need to make sure that the page is also served as UTF-8, or the browser will interpret the file wrongly (Expecting it to be ISO-8859-1) and you'll get garbled characters. You can do this in different ways, but the simplest is probably to put the following line of php code at the top of your script (Before any HTML or other output):

header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8"); 

[toytron]

if you want to add a form to your site, this could also be helpfull

[runrunforest]

UTF-8 is part of Unicode standard so one can't be used instead of the other. I don't know Dreamweaver much at all and it really is Dreamweaver, not PHP, problem. Try looking in Dreamweaver's documentation, forums or contact support.

you're absolutely right, I bring the problem to a friend of mine. He asked me if I set the dreamweaver font encoding preferences for entire project to utf8 yet ? I said yes. Its weird, it should be no problem.

He goes to the document where the problem is, pressing ctrl + J to open quick preference setting for font, its showing that particular document's font encoding is ISO-.....

So why my preference wasn't applied to that document? Magic.

But problem solved.

note: one unexplainable thing is before i meet my friend, i type the language outside the php echo function, but still inside the php tag, the browser could display it correctly.

[runrunforest]

if you want to add a form to your site, this could also be helpfull

Thanks for link dear. Its gonna fix funny characters in my database row