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

I had the same issue with a website for a French hotel.

Changing the charset to "ISO-8859-1" instead of "UTF-8" did the trick.

Example: < form method="post" name="contact" action="send_mail.php" accept-charset="ISO-8859-1" >