How to use tamil fonts in php page?

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I have used Tamil fonts and it is displaying the correct font when I run it in local server. But it is showing like X.Ãƒ.uhkrhÃ¤ buÂ£oahÂ® in webpage. How to solve this? Please help.

thanks for your response. How to set/use UTF-8? and where i should set it — user3239311, Jan 27 '14 at 06:10
[UTF-8 all the way through](http://stackoverflow.com/a/279279/1700963) — Class, Jan 27 '14 at 06:12

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 27 '14 at 06:10

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Add the below code on your php script.

<?php
header('Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8');

answered Jan 27 '14 at 06:10

Shankar Narayana Damodaran

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actually the file extension is only .php but everthing inside is html only. when am editing the tamil content in dreamweaver/localhost it is perfect but not in server – user3239311 Jan 27 '14 at 06:19

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 27 '14 at 06:56

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try this ,

<meta charset="UTF-8" />

answered Jan 27 '14 at 06:56

Steve Bals

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it's been in the server side, not in the client/browser side. – Manikandan Jun 17 '20 at 17:51

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 06 '14 at 05:32

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You need to do two things

set meta data to utf-8 (as given in answers here)
Save the page in UTF-8 encoding instead of ASCII (then browser will know this page contains UTF-8 content)

answered Mar 06 '14 at 05:32

Jay Mayu

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How to use tamil fonts in php page?

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