PHP: why am I not viewing correctly the text?

Question

I set up both PHP 5 and Apache to use UTF-8 encoding. I tried to show in my browser the result of this PHP code:

echo "Trying to visualize the letter ü"

and it shows me this result:

Trying to visualize the letter �

Why?

Is your file in UTF-8 (without BOM)? Is your `Content-Type` also UTF-8 ? — Glavić, Aug 16 '13 at 14:48
Probably have to show where you made configuration changes. Seems to me like you just haven't set it up correctly — ಠ_ಠ, Aug 16 '13 at 14:49
@Glavić How can I see that? Anyway, I wrote it with notepad (win 8) — sl34x, Aug 16 '13 at 14:49
@ಠ_ಠ I added in the php conf file "default_charset = "utf-8";" and in the apache conf file "AddDefaultCharset UTF-8" — sl34x, Aug 16 '13 at 14:51
And I don't know how to change character in file with notepad, but with notepad++ it is fairly simple, just go on `Encoding > Convert to UTF-8 without BOM`. — Glavić, Aug 16 '13 at 14:53
Try with http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2311750/change-file-encoding-to-utf-8-via-vim-in-a-script or with iconv = `iconv -f source-encoding -t target-encoding outfile` — Glavić, Aug 16 '13 at 14:57

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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Try this :

<?php
header('Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8');
echo "Trying to visualize the letter ü";

If this doesn't work, than your file is in different encoding that utf-8.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

Community

answered Aug 16 '13 at 14:50

Glavić

Thanks a lot. I solved by saving the file in UTF-8 (default was ANSI). I did "File->Save as..->Encoding: UTF-8". – sl34x Aug 16 '13 at 14:59

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 16 '13 at 14:53

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Make sure you set your documents "Content-Type" http header, and set the charset to the encoding that you're using:

header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8");

answered Aug 16 '13 at 14:53

Lee Davis

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