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Sorting Umlauts ?

Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:05 am
by tchristian
Hello Guys,

I am new here. And I need help on sorting umlauts (german umlauts). So, in the database I have stored the O Umlauts using the HTML: "Ö". Now, it will be a problem when I am trying to sort the list.

Any suggestions on sorting Umlauts ?

Thanks a lot,
Chris

Re: Sorting Umlauts ?

Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 5:40 am
by tchristian
So, I finally made my database into UTF-8, and it did sort correctly, but the browser does not display it correcly, such as A1`/4 or something like that if you have ever saw it...

And, at my browser, I went to VIEW --> Encoding --> and set it to UTF-8....so, it has to be displayed manually, what if someone opens a browser and he/she does not know how to set the encoding ? I would really like to do it automatically.

Any ideas how to set Browser Encoding from the script (PHP or Javascript) ?

Thanks,
Chris

Re: Sorting Umlauts ?

Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 5:47 am
by jmut
If changing broswer encoding options works for you then I guess this

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
should do... put in head tag.

Re: Sorting Umlauts ?

Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 6:21 am
by VladSun

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header('Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
The META-tag has no effect if a HTTP header is send.