Using accentuation or other special characters and printing with php.

[Henio Sampaio]

Hi there, dudes!

So, I'm a portuguese speaker. As you probably know, in portuguese there are many special characters like 'â', 'ã', 'á', 'ç', etc...
My question is: How should I implement my php code to print all these special charecters properly?

I've set the database Connection Collation to UTF8_general_ci as well as the proper table. In my php code, while trying to properly print the string, I used the function utf8_decode(). But, instead of the proper special characters, all I get are strange simbols: boxes in Internet Explorer and '?'s in Firefox.

Can you enlighten me, please?

Thank you in advance.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/17/2009 11:46AM by Henio Sampaio.