ISO to UTF-8

My site's encoding is iso-8857-7. Is there any way to change it to utf-8 without these ???? symbols?

* iso-8857-7 is greek language
** utf-8 supports greek

 

If you're using character entities, you should simply be able to switch your character set declaration to utf-8 in your meta info and that should be that!

 

Well, if you're going to use all character entities then there is no sense in declaring the character to set to be anything beyond ASCII.

Dazed_and_confused, the two character encodings use different bit patterns to represent the same characters. That is why you are getting ???? symbols. Bit patterns that are valid iso-8857-7 characters are not necessarily a utf-8 character. You will have to open the HTML document in some text editor and resave the file, specifically selecting UTF-8 as the character encoding it should use.

 

Blah, you're right. I'm a wee bit sleep deprived at the moment

 

great, i Used editplus and the utf convertor worked.
Now i have problem when i'm trying to take data in greek from a database.

 

Do you know what character encoding your database uses?

 

iso-8857-7

 

Read a small tutorial i wrote for my problem. I think it may help some ppl.

http://sitekeepers.blogspot.com/2005/12/iso-to-utf-8-tutorial.html