How to change charset before redirecting

PHP
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Is it possible for me to change the charset of the page I’m trying to redirect to? Since I can’t pass in more than one header at a time, I’m trying to do something like

// process some stuff here then afterwards
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1');
		header('Location: start.php?home=' . strtolower(urlencode($var[0])) . '&away=' . strtolower(urlencode($var[1])));

But each time it redirects to that page, that page loads with utf-8 encoding. How do I go about changing it without something as drastic as a site-wide ini directive converting all documents to iso-8859-1?

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I just had an afterthought after my machine went off: instead of redirecting to a new page, I could change the charset, then pull the page using curl or http_request and outputting the string. I think that should work but I can neither test it nor delete this topic (since a solution has been found and the thread redundant) to free up space in the forum.

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It is very common mistake, when one confuses Request and Response headers. It will never do like you posted, as Request header makes no sense in the Response.

To send a Request header, you need a client. So your second idea is more plausible, though I have a feeling that your idea on “changing charset” could still be wrong. But as long as you set it with curl request, it would work.

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@colshrapnel my friend!! :smile: Long time.

The problem was solved as I earlier described. The only new changes I made was in converting converting the resource back to that format i.e.

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1');
	echo(html_entity_decode(file_get_contents($document), ENT_HTML401, 'ISO-8859-1'));

The only problem now is I have to forfeit passing in query strings :frowning:

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