UTF-8 is de facto standard for web applications now, but PHP this is not a default encoding for PHP (until 6.0). Most of the server is set up for the ISO-8859-1 encoding by default.

How to overload the default settings in the .htaccess to be sure that everything goes well for UTF-8, locale etc.? Any options for the web server, Unix OS?

Is there any comprehensive list of those settings? E.g. mbstring options, iconv settings, locale etc I should set up for each multi language project? Any pre defined .htaccess as an example?

(In my particular case I need setup for the languages: English, Dutch and Russian. The server is in Ukraine).

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