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Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:15:43 -0000
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Default charset
From: nlopess@php.net ("Nuno Lopes")

PHP had a bug when handling the default_charset in CGI mode.
Upgrading PHP will do the trick.

Nuno


> 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.