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Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 11:45:20 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Default charset
From: thetaphi@php.net (Uwe Schindler)

Hi Graziano,

At 10:42 04.01.2006, you wrote:
>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.

create a .htaccess file in the application directory where you use 
the "php_value" command to set this variable. See http://www.php.net/php_value

The problem is that changing the charset in the script is too late 
(it is running so it cannot be changed anymore).

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Uwe Schindler
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NSAPI SAPI developer
Bremen, Germany