msa Posted August 22, 2009 Posted August 22, 2009 H, I have a bilingual shop (shop.fouman.com) Firefox understands and displays my utf-8 characters correctly but IE sets the default encoding as Arabic and messes up some parts of the pages. Where can I enforce IE to use utf-8 as default encoding in all pages? Thanks for your help in advance. Mima Hi, I am having the same problem . Firefox understands and displays my utf-8 Greek characters correctly but IE sets the default encoding as Western so the Greek pages do not display correctly. My greeh.php is encoded in utf-8 and it looks likes this: @setlocale(LC_TIME, 'el_GR.UTF8'); define('DATE_FORMAT_SHORT', '%d/%m/%Y'); // this is used for strftime() define('DATE_FORMAT_LONG', '%A %d %B, %Y'); // this is used for strftime() define('DATE_FORMAT', 'd/m/Y'); // this is used for date() define('DATE_TIME_FORMAT', DATE_FORMAT_SHORT . ' %H:%M:%S'); //// // Return date in raw format // $date should be in format mm/dd/yyyy // raw date is in format YYYYMMDD, or DDMMYYYY function tep_date_raw($date, $reverse = false) { if ($reverse) { return substr($date, 0, 2) . substr($date, 3, 2) . substr($date, 6, 4); } else { return substr($date, 6, 4) . substr($date, 3, 2) . substr($date, 0, 2); } } // if USE_DEFAULT_LANGUAGE_CURRENCY is true, use the following currency, instead of the applications default currency (used when changing language) define('LANGUAGE_CURRENCY', 'EUR'); // Global entries for the <html> tag define('HTML_PARAMS','dir="LTR" lang="el"'); // charset for web pages and emails define('CHARSET', 'UTF8'); Thanks for your help in advance.
msa Posted August 22, 2009 Author Posted August 22, 2009 Hi, I am having the same problem . Firefox understands and displays my utf-8 Greek characters correctly but IE sets the default encoding as Western so the Greek pages do not display correctly. My greeh.php is encoded in utf-8 and it looks likes this: @setlocale(LC_TIME, 'el_GR.UTF8'); define('DATE_FORMAT_SHORT', '%d/%m/%Y'); // this is used for strftime() define('DATE_FORMAT_LONG', '%A %d %B, %Y'); // this is used for strftime() define('DATE_FORMAT', 'd/m/Y'); // this is used for date() define('DATE_TIME_FORMAT', DATE_FORMAT_SHORT . ' %H:%M:%S'); //// // Return date in raw format // $date should be in format mm/dd/yyyy // raw date is in format YYYYMMDD, or DDMMYYYY function tep_date_raw($date, $reverse = false) { if ($reverse) { return substr($date, 0, 2) . substr($date, 3, 2) . substr($date, 6, 4); } else { return substr($date, 6, 4) . substr($date, 3, 2) . substr($date, 0, 2); } } // if USE_DEFAULT_LANGUAGE_CURRENCY is true, use the following currency, instead of the applications default currency (used when changing language) define('LANGUAGE_CURRENCY', 'EUR'); // Global entries for the <html> tag define('HTML_PARAMS','dir="LTR" lang="el"'); // charset for web pages and emails define('CHARSET', 'UTF8'); Thanks for your help in advance. I managed to solve my problem, as follows. My original greek.php had the following: @setlocale(LC_TIME, 'el_GR.UTF8'); // Global entries for the <html> tag define('HTML_PARAMS','dir="LTR" lang="el"'); // charset for web pages and emails define('CHARSET', 'UTF8'); What I did was to replace the UTF8 with UTF-8 as follows: @setlocale(LC_TIME, 'el_GR.UTF-8'); // Global entries for the <html> tag define('HTML_PARAMS','dir="LTR" lang="el"'); // charset for web pages and emails define('CHARSET', 'UTF-8'); Now Greek display correctly in both IE and Firefox!
Guest Posted September 1, 2009 Posted September 1, 2009 Hello Marinos, Excellent feedback. I tried it and it's working fine so far. I'd like to put a link in my post so that people can find such simple solutions faster. The problem is I don't know how to do that either:( Cheers, Thanks, Gracias, Merci
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