Character encoding help

[frank727]

My PHP file is giving me the dreaded "The character encoding of the HTML document was not declared" error.

I added the following in my header section but it didn't help.

PHP Code:

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


Thanks for any help...

[sunfighter]

giving me the dreaded

Sounds like this is happening all the time. Personally I have never seen it.

Don't think that is coming from php, but your html is having trouble with the php feedback(?) Post the php code here or at lest what your echoing back.

[frank727]

See attachment. This is from Firefox's web console debugging tool. And yes, most of my .php pages show this error.

[Arbitrator]

Originally Posted by frank727

See attachment. This is from Firefox's web console debugging tool. And yes, most of my .php pages show this error.

The easiest way to specify the encoding of all of your HTML documents is to declare it site-wide using an HTTP header; just make sure every document actually conforms to that encoding. For example, if using Apache, you can put AddType UTF-8 .html in a .htaccess file to specify that the encoding of all HTML files with that particular extension is UTF-8.

Originally Posted by frank727

PHP Code:

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


The second line is not a correct way to specify encoding. The HTML4/5 way to do it is via the first line. The HTML5-specific way is through <meta charset="UTF-8">.

[frank727]

Thanks...