Help with random appearing symbols

Discussion in 'PHP' started by wholesalechecklist, Jan 12, 2007.

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    Look at the left side of the footer. Why are their symbols instead of normal spaces between my words?
     
    wholesalechecklist, Jan 12, 2007 IP
  2. kohashi

    kohashi Well-Known Member

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    biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200401/msg00742.html

    hope that helps
     
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  3. smullen

    smullen Member

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    Its a character set problem (change encoding in your browser to ISO8859 and it'll go away)...

    To fix, many ways.

    Simple one is add this to .htaccess file in document root of website:
    php_value default_charset "ISO-8859-1"
     
    smullen, Jan 13, 2007 IP
  4. wholesalechecklist

    wholesalechecklist Peon

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    i got an error that says I cant do this in htaccess and I must use php.ini file. Never dealth with a php.ini file so I will need some help in setting up a php.ini file...
     
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  5. wholesalechecklist

    wholesalechecklist Peon

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    I tried changing fonts, and that didnt work either. Any other ideas?
     
    wholesalechecklist, Jan 18, 2007 IP
  6. maiahost

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    It's either a charset problem (try changing the character set of the page to content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" ) or just remove the ?s and put &nbsp in their place.
     
    maiahost, Jan 18, 2007 IP