PHP and utf-8 text problems

[wonderland]

Hi,

I don't know much about php, since I didn't need it. Now though I need to make one small change in .php file - change some text that gets displayed.
This text is in UTF-8 Format with letters like ā š ķ , etc I've changed text inside of this php document, but after saving and re-uploading this file letters like ā š ķ are displayed just like a s k.
I know that in html you just needed to add charset=utf-8 and those letters would display, but what do I do in .php ?
I did look around on internet , tried using this piece of code

header('Content-Type: text/plain, charset=utf-8');

but that didn't help, letters like ā š ķ are simpy displayed as a s k

How could I get this to work ?

[colweb]

The letters are not coming out of a database I presume. Just an echo in the php file where these letters should be displayed in a browser?
If so, you can repair the problem by re-opening the php file with a editor that understands utf-8. Under Windows you could even use notepad for this. See image.

[wonderland]

Yes, they aren't coming out of database.

This worked, thank you, I didn't think it would be so simple ! :)

Would be nice if dreamweaver also had this simple function in save as window.

[colweb]

Ah dreamweaver... Never heard anything good about it.

It seems this thread is solved. Could you please mark it as solved then. Thank you.

[wonderland]

Of course. Thanks again !

[wonderland]

I have another problem after saving as utf-8 using notepad. Letters work, but after saving as utf-8 this error below appears:

I backed up original file of course, and after restoring problem goes away. I tried saving original file as utf-8 (nothing else, just saving) problem appears. What could be the problem here ?

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/bcgroupl/public_html/majaslapa/wp-comments-post.php:1) in /home/bcgroupl/public_html/majaslapa/wp-comments-post.php on line 88

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/bcgroupl/public_html/majaslapa/wp-comments-post.php:1) in /home/bcgroupl/public_html/majaslapa/wp-comments-post.php on line 89

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/bcgroupl/public_html/majaslapa/wp-comments-post.php:1) in /home/bcgroupl/public_html/majaslapa/wp-comments-post.php on line 90

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/bcgroupl/public_html/majaslapa/wp-comments-post.php:1) in /home/bcgroupl/public_html/majaslapa/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 868

[wonderland]

Found solution to this problem. colweb was right about saving as utf-8, but it's important to save as utf-8 without bom(which adds invisible characters to the document). I found that notepad ++ does this job really well.

[motke]

i had the same problem and i've been working on it for 7 hours. wonderland and everyone - thank you !