Displaying special characters?

I have the following in a file:
Příšerně žluťoučký kůň úpěl ďábelské ódy

When I print it out using (PHP) htmlspecialchars(utf8_decode($line), ENT_QUOTES) I get:

P?�?ern? ?lu?ou?k� k?? �p?l ?�belsk� �dy

Can anyone help me so that it will display correctly?

 

Do you have a !DOCTYPE line at the start of your document? Perhaps the browser is using a different encoding table and you need to specify the correct one.

 

What are you trying to get? I've not used that particular combination of functions.

I did this

<?php

$str = "P&#x159;&#xED;&#x161;ern&#x11B; &#x17E;lu&#x165;ou&#x10D;k&#xFD; k&#x16F;&#x148; &#xFA;p&#x11B;l &#x10F;&#xE1;belsk&#xE9; &#xF3;dy

echo $str . "<br /><br />";

echo htmlspecialchars($str) . "<br /><br />";

echo htmlspecialchars_decode($str);

?>

Code (markup):

which renders this in the browser

Příšerně žluťoučký kůň úpěl ďábelské ódy

Příšerně žluťoučký kůň úpěl ďábelské ódy

Příšerně žluťoučký kůň úpěl ďábelské ódy

Code (markup):

But, my server has this for the response header

I think rb3m is on the right track. What response header does your server produce? The default is likely no charset, ASCII or iso-8859-1, depending on the server, its age and its administrator. Apache now defaults to iso-8859-1. Few if any browsers pay much attention to the http-equiv tag's charset. You'd best ask your web server admin to specify utf-8 or add "AddDefaultCharset utf-8" to your .htaccess file.

cheers,

gary