problem with foreign language characters

[Zaggs]

Hi Guys!

I am having a problem with Portugese language on this site. On some pages the characters display fine, like here: http://www.universodosdominios.com/index.php (category menu down left).

However, when I go to this page, the same menu items do not appear correctly: http://www.universodosdominios.com/s...advancedsearch

The charset is the same on both pages. What could cause this?

[AnthonySterling]

How is the code different between the two entry points?

Your server sends the same headers for both...

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: Keep-Alive
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:15:04 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.14
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache

[Zaggs]

The code that displays the categories is exactly the same function...

[chris.upjohn]

Placing those kinds of characters into a page isn't ASCII compliant, you will need to replace the symbols with HTML symbol codes for them to render correctly.

http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm

[Aleksejs]

My wild guess is that in second page when extracting categories from DB, you have not executed "SET names UTF8"., because if I forcibly change encoding in browser to ISO-8859-1, then diacritical characters seem to appear.

[AnthonySterling]

Have you ensured the character encoding for the 2 physical files are the same?

For example...

[Zaggs]

I resolved the issue by using:

$dbh->query("set names 'utf8'");

Thanks for your help guys!

[Aleksejs]

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