Why is the http header sending utf-8? I imagine I could change this?W3C Validator wrote:Character Encoding mismatch!
The character encoding specified in the HTTP header ( utf-8 ) is different from the value in the <meta> element (iso-8859-1). I will use the value from the HTTP header ( utf-8 ) for this validation.
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When i validate my page, I get this error:
take a look at http://de2.php.net/ini.core#ini.default-charset and http://de2.php.net/ini.core#ini.default-mimetype

If your document is utf-8 then there's no problemThe Ninja Space Goat wrote:What are the possible implications of setting the character set as utf-8? Is there any reason why I shouldn't?
If you're using Apache you can use the following in your httpd.conf or an .htaccess file.
or
To be honest i've got pretty confused by encodings myself. I did play around with: http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.m ... coding.php and related functions but I didn't really fully understand it.
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AddDefaultCharset UTF-8