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May 12, 2009, 16:43 #1
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Unknown character display
Hi,
This is very frustrating but I have a problem. When I submit a form, the browser displays a question mark instead of the character and this is making my text display look very ugly.
Please is there anything I can do to fix this problem. The problem can be found here: http://www.thascript.com/?lid=67
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May 12, 2009, 16:50 #2
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Your database connection or database table or both are not set to use the UTF-8 encoding you're serving the page in. The character sets you're using to store the data and to display the data must match.
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May 12, 2009, 17:01 #3
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Am so lost. Am a newbie so can you explain in plain english what I need to do to get rid of all that mess? Thanks
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May 13, 2009, 01:32 #4
Hey I had this a lot as well,
in your html document it should have this meta tag to fix it (between the <head> here </head> tags)
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
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May 13, 2009, 01:34 #5
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