X/HTML & Unicode
YES - you can display unicode characters even if apache is using ISO-8859-1 encoding and your HTML pages are using ISO-8859-1 encoding !Here's how
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> </head> <body> <pre> <? $str = "ab\xE2\x86\x91\xE2\x86\x93" ; echo $str ."\n" ; echo "\n" ; echo htmlentities($str) ."\n" ; echo htmlspecialchars(htmlentities($str)) ."\n" ; echo "\n" ; echo htmlentities($str,ENT_QUOTES,"UTF-8") ."\n" ; echo htmlspecialchars(htmlentities($str,ENT_QUOTES,"UTF-8")) ."\n" ; echo "\n" ; echo urlencode($str) ."\n" ; echo "\n" ; ?> </pre> </body> </html>
Should display
ab↑↓
ab↑↓
ab & acirc ; & acirc ;
ab↑↓
ab & # 8593 ; & # 8595 ;
ab & uarr ; & darr ;
ab%E2%86%91%E2%86%93
