phpUtf8.md

PHP UTF-8

Apache configuration (in httpd.conf or .htaccess)

AddDefaultCharset utf-8

PHP (in php.ini)

default_charset = "utf-8"
mbstring.internal_encoding=utf-8
mbstring.http_output=UTF-8
mbstring.encoding_translation=On
mbstring.func_overload=6

MySQL

• CREATE Database with an utf8_* collation
• let the tables inherit the database collation
• start every connection with "SET NAMES utf8"

HTML (in HEAD element)

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">