Handling UTF characters in html form submission
My html form has a few input text fields which can potentially get characters from Chinese, japanese, european, special characters like £, etc. So, in short, unicode characters. To process these values at the server side (with php), can I assume that all browsers by default encode these characters in UTF-8 format at the time of form submission. Or is there is way to tell the browser to always submit these characters as UTF8 encoded , so that we can use the utf8_decode to process these values ? Thanks. Set the character encoding for the form page before you output the HTML. header('Content-Type