php setting encoding iso-8859-1 by default in browser

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I have a php file which when displays data shows strange characters, but when I change encoding from tools in chrome to iso-8859-1 the strange characters are displayed correctly, the strange characters are actually Portuguese alphabets. please tell how can we set by default the encoding to iso-8859-1.

meder omuraliev · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-17 09:43:57Z

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header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1');

You should ideally use utf-8. If it doesn't work automatically, that means it's improperly encoded on the database and you should convert it to utf-8.

edited Jun 17, 2015 at 9:43

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answered Jul 4, 2010 at 1:08

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Christopher K. Over a year ago

Even though both are not state of the art nowadays, I would recommend to always use iso-8859-15 if utf-8 is not an option, as iso-8859-1 does not include the € symbol.

MaKR Over a year ago

9 times out of 10 if someone hits this page it's due to legacy IBM DB2 databases, and good luck convincing the IBM i (AS/400) sysadmin to switch if they haven't already... It was true at the time of this question, and is still true today.

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