Question

In the osCommerce PHP sources in every script there is a line like this:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
      content="text/html; charset=<?php echo CHARSET; ?>

The built-in variable “CHARSET” is very strange and I’ve never seen this in PHP programming before. I’ve tried extensive search for “CHARSET php apache encoding charset utf-8 osCommerce” with google, stackoverflow and of course in php.net but couldn’t find any results about this PHP variable.

I need further information because it types out unexpected/wrong content which doesn’t fit to file encoding, apache transmission encoding nor charset/locale on the system.

So I want to ask: Where does CHARSET get its content from? Do you know any documentation for it?

Answer 1

See: http://forums.oscommerce.com/topic/321294-where-to-define-charset/

Or read it here, as I’ve copied it from there… 😛

Its in catalog/includes/languages/english.php. Change english.php to the language file you need. Look for:

// charset for web pages and emails
define('CHARSET', 'iso-8859-1');