Change File Encoding to UTF-8

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nikitas

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Post by nikitas » Mon Oct 05, 2009 4:30 am

Would it be possible to change the encoding of the Files ( all!!!) to utf-8 ( see the attachment).As a novice php developer and with greek as my native language i've come up to this conclusion while using non utf-8 file encodig ( please check the attachment ) when data is stored to database and they dont use UTF-8 encoding it's messy if the file is not converted to utf-8.I saw some bugs conserning greek letters that wont be saved etc.You can use this method 2 in order to have utf-8 characters used and saved into the database and not html entitites.This must be done for all the files!I'm using Notepad++ but i cant find a script for batch converting to utf-8.

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<?PHP
$conn=mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "") or die(mysql_error());
[b]mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'", $conn)[/b];  <--- MAKE SURE ALL CHARS ARE UTF-8
mysql_select_db("test") or die(mysql_error());
?>

Please notice that if it works for Greek probably it will work for all the other Langs!!!