Character Encoding Problem

[sadiewms]

Hi,

I'm trying to set up my php.ini file so that I can read files and pages that are in GB2312 encoding. I have tried changing the default_charset as well as the mbstring options but nothing I've tried has worked. Does anyone have any experience with this that could help?

Thank you!

[charlesgan]

for your webpages/pages ... are they specify to use the right charset as well??
i mean the chartset at the meta line

eg.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />