What's the value of your default_charset setting? Are your pages being served in UTF-8 encoding or something else?

Hello,

my default parameters in php.ini is :

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; PHP's built-in default media type is set to text/html.
; http://php.net/default-mimetype
default_mimetype = "text/html"

; PHP's default character set is set to UTF-8.
; http://php.net/default-charset
default_charset = "UTF-8"

; PHP internal character encoding is set to empty.
; If empty, default_charset is used.
; http://php.net/internal-encoding
;internal_encoding =

; PHP input character encoding is set to empty.
; If empty, default_charset is used.
; http://php.net/input-encoding
;input_encoding =

; PHP output character encoding is set to empty.
; If empty, default_charset is used.
; See also output_buffer.
; http://php.net/output-encoding
;output_encoding =

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I use in all my html/php file the header :

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

in my httpd.conf

I add the line :

AddDefaultCharset utf-8

But that's doesn't change anything, I've put also accept-charset="utf-8" in the form attribute.

The only thing that's worked it's when I've put the "http_input" to UTF-8 and turn off the "encoding_translation".

In general, you shouldn't use automatic encoding translation because current HTML specification explicitly states client(browser) must send specified char encoding.

In addition, automatic encoding detection requires long and unique enough char data for correct detection. Your input should be short and/or not unique.

Set mbstring.http_input = UTF-8 or none.

Don't forget to set default_charset=UTF-8. This is the setting where you should set char encoding. <meta> may be used, but it's not recommended.