? is displayed on certain character/symbols

Junior WebHelper Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 3

Hi,

I have just moved to apache 2.0.48 and i have php 4.3.4, when i try to display the character £ or " or ' (and many others) they are replaced with the character '?'.

I presumed this was a problem with php, but i tryed a simple html file and it also came up with the same problem.

I have tried:

<?
header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8");
echo " this is a £ pound";
?>

Its displays: this is a ? pound

I have been told " apache 2.0 httpd.conf file comes with default charset being set to iso-8859-1 which is bad! that charset can't deal with many things" And to use utf-8 instead. I look at the config file and both charsets are in there. Should i remove the iso-8859-1 or is there another main problem?

any help would be really appreciated.

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 1:29 pm (20 years ago)

You mean you get a replaced character that looks like black-diamond with
a question mark within it?

For an example look for 'Replacement characters' here: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFFF0.pdf

If so try £

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 3:29 pm (20 years ago)

SteveW, please do not post the same thing in more than one forum. I've removed the other two posts.

Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 11:52 am (20 years ago)

Yep, remove it from httpd.conf and all will be well, annoyed the hell out of me too for a while.