php displays dBase table with wrong charset!

[Goldfisch1980]

Hi!

I read an dBase table under Win XP by the common dBase functions of PHP
4.3.5.
But all records are displayd with a wrong charset.
All umlauts of the databasefile like "öäüéô"... and so on are not
displayed or are displayed in a wrong way! :-(

How can I set the correct charset for the table, that all umlauts keep save?

I thank you so much for your answer,
Lars

[DH]

Goldfisch1980 wrote:

Hi!

I read an dBase table under Win XP by the common dBase functions of PHP
4.3.5.
But all records are displayd with a wrong charset.
All umlauts of the databasefile like "öäüéô"... and so on are not
displayed or are displayed in a wrong way! :-(

How can I set the correct charset for the table, that all umlauts keep
save?

I thank you so much for your answer,
Lars

You may, or may not, find helpful info here:
http://www.dbtools.com.br/EN/article.php?id=00043

[Tony Marston]

You need to change the default charset that PHP uses.

(a) In your php.ini file change this line: default_charset = "UTF-8"
or
(b) In your .htaccess file set this line: php_value default_charset "UTF-8"

You must also ensure that your HTML output is UTF-8, so issue this command
before you output anything:
header('content-type:text/html; charset=UTF-8');

Hope this helps.
--
Tony Marston

http://www.tonymarston.net

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Goldfisch1980 wrote:

Hi!

I read an dBase table under Win XP by the common dBase functions of PHP
4.3.5.
But all records are displayd with a wrong charset.
All umlauts of the databasefile like "öäüéô"... and so on are not
displayed or are displayed in a wrong way! :-(

How can I set the correct charset for the table, that all umlauts keep
save?

I thank you so much for your answer,
Lars

You may, or may not, find helpful info here:
http://www.dbtools.com.br/EN/article.php?id=00043