[How To] Add UTF-8 language support in your scripts

[Matt]

If you are developing a language pack for one of your scripts that does not contain support for special characters and you need UTF-8 support in order for the characters to appear properly, you can add this to your .htaccess file:

AddDefaultCharset utf-8

Your special characters should appear as desired.

[jmarcv]

Available in Apache 2.0.33 and later

[Matt]

Thanks for the clarification. Do you know the solution for Apache 1.x?

[jmarcv]

This is still on my list to test, but haven't got there yet.

I think its either

AddCharset UTF-8 .html

or something like this:

<FilesMatch "\.(htm|html|css|js)$">
ForceType 'text/html; charset=UTF-8' 
</FilesMatch>