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Asked: 2026-05-21T11:28:43+00:00

I have a form in my page for users to leave a comment. I’m

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I have a form in my page for users to leave a comment.

I’m currently using this charset: 

meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"

but retrieveving the comment from DB accents are not displaying correct ( Ex. è =>è ).

Which parameters should i care about for a correct handling of accents?

SOLVED

  • changed meta tag to charset=’utf-8′

  • changed character-set Mysql (ALTER TABLE comments CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf-8)

  • changed connection character-set both when inserting records and retrieving ($conn->query(‘SET NAMES utf8’))

Now accents are displaying correct

thanks

Luca

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  1. Editorial Team

    The ISO-8859-1 character set is for Latin characters only. Try UTF-8, and make sure that the database these characters are coming from are also UTF-8 columns.

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