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

What is the charset of the HTML page? It sounds like the charset of the PHP file and the HTML within it differ. You might want to check out:

• http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/charset.html.en
• http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html
• https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=html+charset

For more help, please post some code, specifically the doctype which is being output and any calls to PHP charset functions.