HTML/PHP to display special characters

Asked Jul 15 '14 at 11:06

Active Jul 15 '14 at 11:43

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I have following sample PHP to print special characters in output. But its not printing any special character.

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>
    <?php
    $string = "½ Kg";
    ?>

Outputs:

<p>� Kg</p>

I have tried htmlspecialchars() or htmlentities() which is also not helping !!

Then tried setting header inside php.

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

it says,

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent

kindly suggest how to print Special Characters

edited Jul 15 '14 at 11:43

asked Jul 15 '14 at 11:06

logan

`echo "½ Kg";` works for me, check your browser encoding. – Janis Vepris Jul 15 '14 at 11:09
Output needs to be `utf-8` and `ISO-8859-1` at the same time? – Álvaro González Jul 15 '14 at 11:09
@ÁlvaroG.Vicario : I have changed my question to utf-8 – logan Jul 15 '14 at 11:43
Please review the linked question for a comprehensive check-list. You should also note that UTF-8 can hold the complete Unicode catalogue (i.e., all the characters that a computer can handle)—there's no need to use HTML entities at all. – Álvaro González Jul 15 '14 at 12:00
@ÁlvaroG.Vicario : I just tried `mysql_set_charset("utf8");` it still prints `�` – logan Jul 15 '14 at 12:12
If that's the only thing you've verified you still have a lot of items to check. – Álvaro González Jul 15 '14 at 12:17
@ÁlvaroG.Vicario : I am sorry, Please guide me any other major check ? – logan Jul 15 '14 at 13:21

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