HTML: Russian letters
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Hello. I have just uploaded a website to set up the database. Looks like everything works just fine, I've set up every type just like I had it on my localhost but when I load the page there are Russian letters instead of Lithuanian ones. Those columns in MySQL are set to utf8_lithuanian_ci collation and I even specify that I want data returned in utf8 (mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");). My HTML has a meta tag to use utf8 charset and even tried to specify the language:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="lt" />
The problem isn't in the database. I even ran with my finger over the upper line of the keyboard (the one with Lithuanian letters) in my index.php and it showed
Д…Д…ДЌД™Д—ДЇЕЎЕіЕ«90
instead of
ąąčęėįšųū90
The server is in Ukraine (I think).
How do I fix it?
Just to make the situation more clear: the website is going to be multilingual (lt, en, ru, fr). I'm not sure if it would have any effect to the solution.
P.S. I don't want to replace characters in database with HTML char codes...
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I've just noticed that there is – instead of – as well. -
Here is what I've got from their support team:
You must configure the file .htaccess, how to do this can be found on the Internet.
You can download this file by FTP
Just an example:
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AddDefaultCharset utf-August
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^ (administrator | css | editor | images | files | js) / - [L]
RewriteCond% (REQUEST_FILENAME)!-D
RewriteCond% (REQUEST_FILENAME)!-F
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ / index.php? Params = $ 1 &% (QUERY_STRING) [L]
Options-Indexes
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The file should be put in the root directory
I'm not advanced on .htaccess (only basics, actually) so here is my question: is there anything else to change but utf-August? and is there a need for those rewrite rules?
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Added just one line (AddDefaultCharset UTF-8) and it works for now.
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