Portuguese charset problem
What's the encoding of the file in Eclipse set to? Right-Klick on the file in Eclipse, check under "Properties". It must be the same as in your meta-tag.
thanks so much, i believe your answer is the best one:
$string = 'café'; utf8_decode($string); OR
$string = 'café'; utf8_encode($string);with meta charset in the header of each file, the issue of portugues characters will be solved.
Why don't you switch to UTF-8?
edit You might also want to switch to using entities.
é would be the é