处理西里尔语编码

Question

I have a small problem, I'm using a .php page to show Russian characters. Now, I do this in two different ways. The text I take from the database shows fine, but if I show text like this

<h2>привет </h2> it doesn't show it at all. One thing worth mentioning is that I include my navigation file require_once "navigation.php" where I declare all the meta data etc.

So from navigation.php:

<meta charset="Cyrillic(Windows-1251)">

Solutions I've tried so far:

• Adding encoding to .htaccess
• Using php to output header encoding
• Using Cyrillic(Windows-1251), UTF8, UTF16, iso-8859-5
• Saving the file itself as UTF8

And I'm out of ideas. What I don't understand is how echoing the text from database works, but the HTML version doesn't.

Answer 1

So the problem was somewhere in the JS. For this project, I was given complete HTML works, just to hook PHP to it. The HTML, among other things, had this:

<script type="text/javascript" src="js/cufon-yui.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/cufon-replace.js"></script>

I have no idea what it does except it makes fonts smaller (why use JS for that is beyond me). So simple removal of that left me with a bit bigger font size, but working Cyrillic characters.

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">