Hi :
I use XAMPP 1.6.9 .the versiob of this are:
Apache 2.2.9
MySQL 5.0.51b
PHP 5.2.6 + PHP 4.4.9 + PEAR
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the _MD_EXPORT_CHARSET is UTF-8,too.

====================the fllow code is alse existed.
if (function_exists("mb_convert_encoding")) {
echo mb_convert_encoding($contents, _MD_EXPORT_CHARSET, _CHARSET);
} else {
echo $contents;
}


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