Troubles with PHP Encoding

Question

I'm not PHP programmer but I need to change some things for CMS (opencart)

So that is not so hard I just found how it works Template -> Model -> View -> LanguageBase

But when I edit (with notepad) Language file like

<?php
// Heading
$_['heading_title']    = 'Информация'; // Changed russian word (it was russian, I just changed it to another word)
?>

And drop it on hosting, I can see ???????? Only :( How can I deal with encoding there ?

thank you.

Added : seems like files is truely UTF8, when I save it as ANSII I can see ��

Does it work fine on the same hosting before u edit? I doubt if the hosting supports the russian language? — Roman
– Roman, Commented Jun 19, 2011 at 18:09
Use Notepad++ to open and edit your file -- much safer. Using it open another file that has Russian words and check what encoding it uses (UTF-8 or Win-1251, with BOM or not). Now open problematic file and change to the same settings. — LazyOne
– LazyOne, Commented Jun 19, 2011 at 18:38

Eray · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-19 18:15:43Z

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Can you scan your files for UTF8 BOM ? http://emrahgunduz.com/categories/development/php/take-2-on-utf8-bom-remove-bom-with-php/

Also use Notepad++ and save your files as UTF8 , don't use notepad.

answered Jun 19, 2011 at 18:15

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cnd Over a year ago

Yes fixed, the BOM was a problem, converted files to UTF8 with no BOM.

Bing · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-19 18:11:21Z

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Make sure you save the file as UTF-8. There's an "encoding" droplist in Notepad when you use "save as", it probably defaults to "Ansi". I'm assuming that your CMS is using UTF8, anything else would be surprising..

answered Jun 19, 2011 at 18:11

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Sinan Over a year ago

Also if this file is included in some other file you may need to change those files to UTF-8 as well

cnd Over a year ago

I just tried to save it as UTF8 - same result. (and after all UTF8 were default chose)

Bing Over a year ago

Check that your servers defualt encoding (in php.ini) is utf-8. If you chose "view source" on the resulting web page, do you see some line in the header indicating utf8? <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> Is your text represented correctly in the source?

cnd Over a year ago

there is <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> and I'm not sure where I can find php.ini (if I download and upload file with no changes it works fine)

Bing Over a year ago

upload a file with <?php phpinfo(); ?> in it and you'll find a row about default_encoding there somewhere. How about the files that use your data, are they all saved as utf8? I'm not familiar with opencart I'm afraid, so I don't know how it's built. If you upload a file with just "echo ('Информация');", how does that work?

Andrew Moore · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-19 18:12:58Z

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Make sure that your file is encoded in UTF-8 and that your server is sending the proper Content-Type header. You might also want to drop in the following in the head of your document:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

You can send the proper header by using this snippet:

header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

Also, if you are using FTP to upload your file, upload it in BINARY mode.

answered Jun 19, 2011 at 18:12

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cnd Over a year ago

upload in binary mode did not helped and after all if I don't edit file just download and upload - it being fine :S

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