PHP Include and accents (They show up as �)

Question

I\'m using PHP include to include a PHP file that has HTML in it. some of the content has french accents and these show up as � on the site. How can this be solved?

Answer 1

That happens if the browser thinks your using another encoding than you actually use.

try to add the following in your php file before any html is printed:

header ('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
// or
header ('Content-type: text/html; charset=iso8859-15');

and add

between the tags

UPDATE: just saw your update with the file. you need to add header ('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');