echo array ISO-8859-1 values correctly

I'm having troubles while printing the array values, they are originally encoded with ISO-8859-1 and when echoed they appear with "?". That's so annoying!

I have the charset defined to ISO-8859-15

$lang = array();

$lang['HOMEPAGE'] = 'âéíó';

echo $lang['HOMEPAGE'];

result: ????

Any hints?

It used to work, using the utf8_decode(); but doesn't seem to solve my problem.

EDIT:

I well, i defined the charset for ISO-8859-15, but i was incl开发者_JS百科uding the file with the "áúóá" characters, before the html header because of cookie interaction, tried to use ob_start to use cookies on the body but the errors remained, defined charset with header() function and worked well, other solution is:

echo iconv('ISO-8859-1', 'UTF-8', $lang['PARAGRAFO1']);

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There are two encodings at work here:

1. The encoding of your text, in this case the source code.

2. The encoding of the webpage. Make sure it's set to ISO-8859-1 as well. Put this meta tag in the header of your HTML file to enforce an encoding:

   <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
   

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If you want to output as UTF-8, I suggest you to add those on your initial php script

ini_set("default_charset", "UTF-8");
mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8");

Of course you can change to other char if needed.