Russian language in Apache/DB

[SeLLeRoNe]

Hi,

i need to make my system (so apache mysql and whatever needed) to be able to show russian characters in website (and probably store some data in russian in mysql database aswell).

Does anybody can help me on this? Probably is simple but i would prefer to be directed somewhere easy/not problematic way

Thanks in advance

Best regards

 

[zEitEr]

Hello,

Did not get your problem. Default Apache/PHP/MySQL from custombuild work ok with Cyrillic chars. What does not work? Send me a link to a website, if any cause a problem for you?

 

[SeLLeRoNe]

No links atm, a customer asked for that option cause he was going to put a website with Cyrillic language.

Ill tell him to test and if he got problem ill let you know.

Thanks for the notify.

Regards

 

[zEitEr]

As a addition, there can be a MySQL issue, but it has nothing with only Cyrillic (Russian), if your MySQL server is configured to use UTF-8 by default, there should not be any problems. Otherwise your user can use "SET NAMES" in scripts.

And, of course keep in mind to change AddDefaultCharset in user's .htaccess with proper charset. In Russian we have:

windows-1251
koi8-r
utf-8

If UTF-8 is used, then it will work from a box.

 

[SeLLeRoNe]

Ok, he tryed again (he sayd he had alraedy tryed and received only ????? chars in the page) and he found that was cuteftp that was encoding the file in ascii instead of unicode.

Thanks a lot

 

[zEitEr]

You're welcome.

Please, feel free to ask more questions upon the subject if you've got any.