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Hi...

when using the unicode fonts, the header information is correct in the HTML, but the browsers (IE & Opera, both latest versions) do not switch to UTF-8 with automatic encoding... any idea why?

is there a setting in apache or php that overrides the header information?

Oliver

If the web server sends out a proper header with a character set in it, then that takes precedence over what's in the meta http-equiv in header.thtml.

Try putting as the very first line of header.thtml (before the DOCTYPE).

bye, Dirk

I deleted my post as it was irrelevant. Sorry...

Now thats a post that is hard to understand. I dont really know where sarcasm is in your post and where you try to help, where you point out wrong things and where the science is.

in the end, I used Dirk's recommendation and it works perfectly.

Oliver

This is, of course, utter nonsense (sorry, but it is). The DOCTYPE has to be before the opening html tag.

It doesn't matter where the {charset} is in the header.thtml - if it is there, it will be replaced with the currently selected character set. Which of course means that you have to make sure that it is set properly. The character set is usually taken from the language file, unless it doesn't have one, in which case it's taken from config.php.

bye, Dirk

I deleted my post as it was irrelevant. Sorry...

Look at my post again. I've added a line of PHP code, that gets executed before the HTML is sent. It sends the character set as part of the webserver's header information, not as part of the HTML.

bye, Dirk