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Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 02:40:37 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Default charset
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

Not really a question for internals.

   header("Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8");

from your application will do the trick.

-Rasmus

Graziano Liberati wrote:
> Hi, I wrote the same mail some days ago in the general list and I asked also 
> on the #php IRC channel on Freenode but I didn't find any answer, so I try 
> here.
> 
> I need to set the default charset for my application to UTF-8 instead of 
> the default one of the webserver that is ISO-8859-1.
> I've tried to change the value of default_charset in php.ini and all it's ok, 
> but I need to set the value only for one application so I've tried to use the 
> ini_set function in this way:
> ini_set('default_charset','utf-8');
> 
> The problem is that that the ini_set function seems to be ignored, I don't 
> have the same effect of changing the php.ini configuration file, with the 
> ini_set function the default charset of the output is still ISO-8859-1.
> 
> My system: PHP 5.0.5, Apache 2.0.54.
> 
> Someone can help me?
> 
> Regards.