special chars

[801119]

How do I enable special chars such as Swedish Å(a with circle above) Ä(a with 2 dots above) Ö(o with 2 dots above)??

I think I've asked this before, but don't think I got a response..

the thing is when I use the following code to let user download files

download.php

    if (file_exists($file))
    {
        header ("Content-type: octet/stream");
        header ("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=".basename($file).";");
        header("Content-Length: ".filesize($file));
        readfile($file);
    }
    exit;

and if the file contains any chars apart from the standard ones i get this error message:

<title>500 Internal server Error</title>

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, brief_life@hotmail.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.


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Apache/2.0.46 (Win32) Server at localhost Port 80

My codes look like something a kid wrote
I have absolutely no idea what I am talking about
Somehow I still manage to make it work

 

[cian]

Did you search the documentation?

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/

I had a quick search but didn't find anything (i'm time limited).





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[801119]

Yeah, I've searched there and the only thing I found was AddCharset, which as far as I could read already enabled it.. could it have something to do with my php??

My codes look like something a kid wrote
I have absolutely no idea what I am talking about
Somehow I still manage to make it work