A bit confused about character encoding....

Hello folks,

Perhaps I mix thing up...
My database is in UTF-8, so I thought php files should also be in that encoding.
But when I put the word "Geëindigd" in a language file which is UTF-8 I see "Geëindigd". What am I doing wrong here?

I compared with a another lang file with an ë in it and that is UTF-8, and there it looks OK....

Thx for helping and grtz,

PHP files don't need to be UTF-8 for the site to run properly, but language and theme files should be UTF-8 and declared this way.

Remember also that even if the data is properly encoded in the database, maybe you're not seeing it right in your screen. I mean, for this "database oputput" to be properly seen, the page should be rendered in UTF-8.

what he means is check your charset in the source of your page.

Well, I checked, and in the properties of the file it says that it's UTF-8.
So I uploaded this module (XoopsPolls 1.0), with this Dutch language files, which runs now on www.nvshv.nl (a Xoops 2.0.18 site which I soon want to switch to ICMS) to my ICMS site www.leefinaandcht.nl and guess what: the ë is correctly presented to the visitor.

I checked and other lang files of modules have the same on my xoops site...

So this problem will solve itself when I switch...

Thx for replying and greetings,