Question

I got problem with some special characters. I have defined the meta tag as

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

so far so good. But in one occassion I have a select tag with many options with many special characters. I got problem showing (å ä ö). They are defined in .js file and are appended to the document using DOM. Pls. are there any solution except using &… forgot the name for that type.

Second character problem I have is in php. I try to send an email with Amazon SES.

<?php

$message['Body.Html.Data'] = "Please Confirm that you are a Tönt by clicking on this link"." ....<a href='s'>Tönt</a>";
$message['Body.Html.Charset'] = 'utf-8';

?>

the ö is not showing properly?

Answer 1

You’d better use:

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

At the very top of your PHP file, no need to use http-equiv metas when you can send some real http headers 😉

Also check if your files (both PHP and JS) are encoded in UTF8 in your editor.
Setting an UTF8 header on non UTF8 files will produce strange results for sure!