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A few of the programmers in my group were recently talking about how to make sure all of our character sets were identical. Here are all of the places that I have found to control character encoding (for LAMP sites):

mysql

alter database db_name default character set utf8;
alter table table_name default character set utf8;

(to determine character set, use show create database db_name)

php.ini

default_charset = "utf-8"

httpd.conf

AddDefaultCharset utf-8

*.html

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>

Are there any others that I may have missed?

Submitted by ryan on 10. July 2007 - 9:17. | Tags:

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