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Asked: 2026-05-21T05:08:58+00:00

I am working on a php based site where some texts are greek and

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I am working on a php based site where some texts are greek and some are english. Greek texts are not showing correctly. The file is saved in UTF-8. Is there anything special to do in the header of the html page to show the greek text correctly? My header is like – 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

Also when I submit a form containing greek text, I am using – 

$firstname = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['firstname']);

Is this okay to use “mysql_real_escape_string” here?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try the following:

    • Set the collation of your database/ tables/ rows to UTF-8. UTF8_general_ci should do.
    • Set the connection between MySQL and PHP to UTF-8. (By executing the query SET NAMES 'utf8' after connecting or by setting the default connection encoding).
    • Try sending the content-type header with PHP: header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8");.
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