how to extract characters of a language?

When I use language characters from Icelandic, the fields comes out to be empty in my phpprobid. How can I fix this?

• I want to setup a web with auctions, stores and so forth... I've set it  up, and now I'm translating it to Icelandic. I have done that for the   most parts, but I will be working on it with school. I have this problem. 1. In Icelandic we have characters in our alphabet. Like á, é, í, ú, æ, ð, þ, ý, ó, and ö. If a user try to register with those characters they get this message: The operation could not be performed because one or more error(s) occurred. Please resubmit the form after making the following changes:     The "Address" field cannot be empty     The "City" field cannot be empty     The "Email Address" field must contain a valid email address     The "Email Address" and "Retype Email Address" fields must match Now I just tried that to copy the text. If I, however, use none Icelandic characters, it's fine. How can I fix this? 2. The same problem is when I try to make a description on a item that I would try to sell. So same problem there. 3.   In English, when in administrator area set text in about us, it appears on the stie when in the English language, however in the text box for Icelandic it won't. This is for announcements too... What could be the problem?

• Answer:

  Have you verified your encoding is set to UTF-8 in your HTML, for your database tables, your Web server defaults?