Question

i have the following PHP code:

<?php

ini_set( 'default_charset', 'UTF-8' );
mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');

function labelValidate($label)
{
    echo mb_detect_encoding($label.'x', 'UTF-8, ISO-8859-1');

    echo '<br />';

    echo mb_detect_encoding('Rio, coração do Brasil', 'UTF-8, ISO-8859-1');
}

labelValidate('Rio, coração do Brasil');

?>

I get this output:

ISO-8859-1
UTF-8

Anybody knows why the parameter $label has ISO charset, but the direct echo which i created inside the function has UTF-8 encode?

This is generating a headache to me, because i have to put a utf8_encode in $label var, otherwise i get problematic chars in the output.

Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

With the help of @Marc B and @Michael Madsen, i downloaded Notepad++ (PHP IDE) and converted the file UTF-8 charset without BOM, so all my problems have been resolved. The Dreamweaver was saving some files as ANSI, this was generationg the confusion on PHP.

Many thanks for all!