Character problems

englishpremier

englishpremier

englishpremier

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I have been asked to take a look the site here: wtatkin.com/Russian/contact.htm (in tables :eek)

The problem is that on the contact form when people send in enquiries in Russian the text appears garbled or as a load of question marks.

Not being a developer i'm unsure of the best way to fix this.
 
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daft question but i take it the PC they are trying to read it on has a russian language pack installed?

I would guess that this is the problem, there is a language pack for russian missing from their PC's or from the server itself and would that need to be linked to the code?

Not sure myself, just a guess
 
Nah its not that. Its the same on Macs and PCs in the office, all of which can see Russian characters.

I think its something as simple as setting the character set in the code to UTF-8 but I don't know how to do this in php or .pl files whatever they are.
 
yep, set the charset of the page to utf-8

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

you can also do things programatically....I know how to do it in asp, just not in php
 
just google "UTF-8 Russian Perl", there seems to be quite a few conversations going on about it however I know nothing about Perl so it's just rubbish to me :)
 
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