title: Preparing PHP application to use with UTF-8
body: <p>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.</p>
  
  <p>How to overload the default settings in the <code>.htaccess</code> to be sure that everything goes well for UTF-8, locale etc.? Any options for the web server, Unix OS?</p>
  
  <p>Is there any comprehensive list of those settings? E.g. <code>mbstring</code> options, <code>iconv</code> settings, locale etc I should set up for each multi language project? Any pre defined <code>.htaccess</code> as an example?</p>
  
  <p>(In my particular case I need setup for the languages: English, Dutch and Russian. The server is in Ukraine).</p>