utf-8 charset

[ufk]

how can i change the default charset to utf8?

[241]

Have you tried search hebrew.

 

read the forum rules about multi posting the same question in the same thread category ;)

[ufk]

but you don't understand my question! i did search hebrew! i figured out that you misunderstood my question cause i said hebrew in the topic so i wrote another one! i did search hebrew and no one used unicode for hebrew! they only used windows-1255 and that's not what i need! so this is a generic question on how to set the default charset to UTF8 that's all! :) please reply!

[241]

did you try windows-1250 or a google search on UTF8 for php

 

Is your idea to convert the characters

 

<?php
/** 
* RFC1738 compliant replacement to PHP's rawurldecode - which actually works with unicode (using utf-8 encoding) 
* @author Ronen Botzer 
* @param $source [STRING] 
* @return unicode safe rawurldecoded string [STRING] 
* @access public 
*/ 
function utf8RawUrlDecode ($source) { 
   $decodedStr = ''; 
   $pos = 0; 
   $len = strlen ($source); 

   while ($pos < $len) { 
       $charAt = substr ($source, $pos, 1); 
       if ($charAt == '%') { 
           $pos++; 
           $charAt = substr ($source, $pos, 1); 
           if ($charAt == 'u') { 
               // we got a unicode character 
               $pos++; 
               $unicodeHexVal = substr ($source, $pos, 4); 
               $unicode = hexdec ($unicodeHexVal); 
               $entity = "". $unicode . ';'; 
               $decodedStr .= utf8Encode ($entity); 
               $pos += 4; 
           } 
           else { 
               // we have an escaped ascii character 
               $hexVal = substr ($source, $pos, 2); 
               $decodedStr .= chr (hexdec ($hexVal)); 
               $pos += 2; 
           } 
       } 
       else { 
           $decodedStr .= $charAt; 
           $pos++; 
       } 
   } 

   return $decodedStr; 
} 




/** 
* The following is actually a javascript method I had to write to replace escape().   
* escape() is the javascript method equivalent to PHP's rawurlencode(), however it doesn't encode utf-8 multibyte characters correctly in most browsers. 
*/ 
// Warning: the following code is JavaScript.  Ugh.  :D 
// use this instead of escape() to ensure a correctly encoded url string (RFC1738) 
function urlEncode (str) { 
   len = str.length; 
   res = new String(); 
   charOrd = new Number(); 
    
   for (i = 0; i < len; i++) { 
       charOrd = str.charCodeAt(i); 
       if ((charOrd >= 65 && charOrd <= 90) || (charOrd >= 97 && charOrd <= 122) || (charOrd >= 48 && charOrd <= 57) || (charOrd == 33) || (charOrd == 36) || (charOrd == 95)) { 
           // this is alphanumeric or $-_.+!*'(), which according to RFC1738 we don't escape 
           res += str.charAt(i); 

       } 
       else { 
           res += '%'; 
           if (charOrd > 255) res += 'u'; 
           hexValStr = charOrd.toString(16); 
           if ((hexValStr.length) % 2 == 1) hexValStr = '0' + hexValStr; 
           res += hexValStr; 
       } 
   } 

   return res; 
} 

?>

[ufk]

hiya! :) thanks for all of that info but it's not needed!

the problem is that i tried:

@setlocale(LC_TIME, 'iw_HE.utf8');

@setlocale(LC_TIME, 'he_IL.utf8');

@setlocale(LC_TIME, 'utf8');

and also

define('HTML_PARAMS','dir="RTL" lang="UTF-8"');

 

 

but still the default encoding for that page is not UTF8!

any ideas why?