Rick Debay wrote:

> The character encoding should be sent in the HTTP header, don't depend
> on META tags.
>
> http://www.w3.org/International/O-HTTP-charset
> "For PHP, use the header() function before generating any content, e.g.:
> header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8");"
>

I'd suggest both. I agree that for browsers, an http header is the way
to go, but unless the <meta> tag is present, the page will be
undisplayable if saved in a file.

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Jim Starkey
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