I have a problem with php and charset=iso-8859-1. I have an index.php page that is suposed to load an other page (database driven) in a div tag but when the page is loaded i got a problem with special char åäö.

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Somebody that know how i do this?

Hi,

What problem do you experience with åäö? Do you get any error messages or does script execution just halt?

Alan

the only problem I have is that instead of writing out åäö it does write eg. ?, as if were using utf-8.

What's the encoding on the database?

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Eric

The problem is that you are trying to use multibyte characters in a singlebyte encoding. Try reading this article: mbstring.

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If the "page" in it self is encoded with ISO-8859-1 then you need the information and subsequent pages that you bring into that page to be in that encoding as well.

Otherwise the browser will get confused and not render the page correctly.

So if your page is ISO-8859-1 encoded and your data in the database is UTF-8 encoded for example. Then you would have to use utf8_decode() on the data you get from your database before you display it in the ISO-8859-1 encoded page.
And the same goes for the other way around. but then you would use utf8_encode().

I hade some of these problems once and it took some time to figure out what was wrong.

One more thing to think about. it´s not enough to set your header and DOCTYPE to reflect the encoding make sure your editor(IDE) actually saves the page with the correct encoding. or otherwise there might be trouble there also.

Hope this helps.

/EyeDentify

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The thing I can't understand is when I opening page.php?id=1 I can see the page as it is suposed do be.

My guess is that is something woring in this code and java is not my thing (that and lazynes is the reason I used one of not my own script).

// JavaScript Document

/***********************************************
* Dynamic Ajax Content- © Dynamic Drive DHTML code library (Dynamic Drive DHTML(dynamic html) & JavaScript code library)
* This notice MUST stay intact for legal use
* Visit Dynamic Drive at Dynamic Drive DHTML(dynamic html) & JavaScript code library for full source code
***********************************************/

var bustcachevar=1 //bust potential caching of external pages after initial request? (1=yes, 0=no)
var loadedobjects=""
var rootdomain="http://"+window.location.hostname
var bustcacheparameter=""

function ajaxpage(url, containerid){
var page_request = false
if (window.XMLHttpRequest) // if Mozilla, Safari etc
page_request = new XMLHttpRequest()
else if (window.ActiveXObject){ // if IE
try {
page_request = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP")
}
catch (e){
try{
page_request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
}
catch (e){}
}
}
else
return false
page_request.onreadystatechange=function(){
loadpage(page_request, containerid)
}
if (bustcachevar) //if bust caching of external page
bustcacheparameter=(url.indexOf("?")!=-1)? "&"+new Date().getTime() : "?"+new Date().getTime()
page_request.open('GET', url+bustcacheparameter, true)
page_request.send(null)
}

function loadpage(page_request, containerid){
if (page_request.readyState == 4 && (page_request.status==200 || window.location.href.indexOf("http")==-1))
document.getElementById(containerid).innerHTML=pag e_request.responseText
}

function loadobjs(){
if (!document.getElementById)
return
for (i=0; i<arguments.length; i++){
var file=arguments[i]
var fileref=""
if (loadedobjects.indexOf(file)==-1){ //Check to see if this object has not already been added to page before proceeding
if (file.indexOf(".js")!=-1){ //If object is a js file
fileref=document.createElement('script')
fileref.setAttribute("type","text/javascript");
fileref.setAttribute("src", file);
}
else if (file.indexOf(".css")!=-1){ //If object is a css file
fileref=document.createElement("link")
fileref.setAttribute("rel", "stylesheet");
fileref.setAttribute("type", "text/css");
fileref.setAttribute("href", file);
}
}
if (fileref!=""){
document.getElementsByTagName("head").item(0).appe ndChild(fileref)
loadedobjects+=file+" " //Remember this object as being already added to page
}
}
}
Any one that can find the prolem?