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PHP

Posted by Adam Ridgley
Adam Ridgley
12,255 Points

PHP UTF 8 Help

Hello guys,

I need some real help with this. I'm working on a client site and he uses a custom CMS which allows him to add information to his site which he does by writing out the content on Microsoft Word then copy and pasting it into the CMS.

Now I'm not sure why it happens but the descriptions in the database show up strange characters like where the accents are supposed to be, sort of like this ’ and I've tried setting UTF 8 headers in my code to try and display the information properly but it does not seem to be working.

In my main PHP file I have this code

mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');
mb_http_output('UTF-8');
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

And in my header.php file I also have this code

<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">

I'm not sure if the meta http-equiv tag has anything to do with it but I don't think it does.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks, Adam