Question

I’m trying to create a file as html to store Chinese characters for my internationalised site but they all appear as question marks.

If I store content of the page in database and pull it when the particular page is loaded, it will probably work fine but this means a connection to the database every time someone wants to see Chinese language.

Is there any way of doing it on flat files? I wanted to create a file and read it’s content and display on the site.

Site runs on PHP+Mysql

Thanks

Answer 1

Possible solutions:

1. Add “AddDefaultCharset UTF-8” to your site’s .htaccess file.
2. Add header(‘Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8’); to the top of your PHP file.
3. Use utf8_encode() php function on the data that needs to be displayed in chinese.