HTML form with windows cyrillic button's names doesn't work on OSX

Question

I installed a site locally on OSX. The site was developed under windows and have cyrillic (Windows) encoding for some string values.

I noted that some buttons with cyrillic values wouldn't work until I change the value to english. The button looks for this, for example:

<form action="{$REQUEST_URI}" method="POST" name="addForm" id="addForm">
...
<td colspan="2" align="center"><input type="submit" name="addDo" value="Добавить" class="btn"></td>
...
</form>

and in php I get void (false) string here:

$addDo = $_POST['addDo'];
if($addDo)
...

When I change it to

 <td colspan="2" align="center"><input type="submit" name="addDo" value="Add" class="btn"></td>

It starts to work properly.

Why can this happen? The site is not my to change, therefore the question is How can I change my OSX setup to make this site works like on Windows?

P.S. This html file is fetched from php module by smarty:

$smarty->fetch('login.html');

Answer 1

I had to set my php configuration as well.
Just go to php.ini and change from

default-charset="utf-8"

to

default-charset="windows-1251"

restart the local server - and everything works now.

Answer 2

In your php application you can try to set html header:

header("Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8");

or

header("Content-Type:text/html; charset=windows-1251");

somewhere before your:

$smarty->fetch('login.html');

Answer 3

Building webpages should use either HTML entities (”), or UTF-8 encoding. You have used Windows-1251 to create this page. You may need to re-export the entire site from windows with a UTF-8 codepage (NOT MUTF-8), or import the Windows-1251 codepage to this OSX machine.

Answer 4

So, if you just want to make site work locally you should firstly convert all your files to UTF-8 using iconv:

iconv -f CP-1251 -t UTF-8 original_file.html > utf8_file.html

Secondly, you need to convert databases (if they're used) to same UTF-8:

ALTER TABLE <table_name> CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

And then you should set correct header before sending results to browser:

header("Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8");

Let me know if this works for you.