php网站在utf-8中无法正确显示

Question

I have a website which has some non standard characters such as ë, Ç etc.

The website uses ISO-8859-1 as it's character encoding, however at this point I want to switch it to UTF-8 for some reasons related to rss feeds.

When i change the character encoding to utf-8 the mentioned characters are displayed incorrectly.

I set the charset through the php header function:

header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1");

Any idea as to how to fix this problem ?

Answer 1

Never heard about entities ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references .

Else, you have to reencode your files (with your editor, you should be able to save your files specifying an encoding).

You can also do it with external programs, like iconv

iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t utf8 your_file > your_new_file