Russian text in index.php(template) shows ????

[PatrickGvk]

Hello everyone,

I've made a Joomla 2.5 website in 5 languages wich is working correct.
When I add Russian text in my joomla menu it works correct and shows the russian text.

In the index.php of my Russian template i need to add 3 Russian sentences in the code. When i save my index.php and upload it to the web it shows ?? instead of the correct word/sentence.

I've been googling and noticed that i need to change the charset to make my browser show Russian text properly.

The following options i tried didnt work:

<?php header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1", true); ?>
and
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />

So the Russian text works in Joomla but not when i add the text into my index.php of my Joomla template.

It's an option to make images instead of using text, but i prefer to fix it in a nice way.

Does anyone have a clue to help me out?

Thanks in advance!

[infograf768]

The only way to display correctly some non ascii text (Russian in your case) in a php file (index.php in your case) is to save the file as UTF8 NO BOM with a good editor.
TextWrangler or BBEdit on Macintosh, Notepad++ on Windows.

[PatrickGvk]

Thanks a lot infograf!

Using Notepad++ with UTF8 without BOM solved my problem!