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Unicode and PHP - am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

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I guess, you see �, the replacement character for invalid UTF-8 byte sequences. Your text is not UTF-8 encoded. Check your editor’s settings to control the encoding of the PHP file.

If you’re not sure about the encoding of your sources, you can enforce UTF-8 compatibilty as described here (German text): Force UTF-8.

You should never need entities except the basic ones.

toscho 2010-04-07 02:49:34

I'm using Coda, and I just switched *Default File Encoding* to Unicode (UTF-8) and saved but it hasn't fixed it.

alex 2010-04-07 02:52:32

Try deleting the character, switching to utf8 in editor, now paste character. The file size should be 2 bytes larger with that character present when utf8 encoded.

chris 2010-04-07 03:13:18

@chris Still no good.

alex 2010-04-07 03:14:37

Answer 2

+1 A:

View the http headers. You should see something like

Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

Browsers don't pay much attention to meta tags, if there was a real http header stating a different encoding.

update

Whatcha get from this?

echo bin2hex('é');
echo chr(0xc3) . chr(0xa9);

You should get c3a9é, otherwise I'd say file encoding issue.

chris 2010-04-07 03:17:40

+1 HTTP headers are often forgotten, but much more important than meta tags. You can use `header()` to output an appropriate header, Kohana might have its own wrapper around it too.

deceze 2010-04-07 03:26:32

Already checked that, and yes the charset is UTF 8

alex 2010-04-07 04:14:06

Re Update: I got `8eé`

alex 2010-04-07 05:47:32

I would try a different editor.

chris 2010-04-07 15:02:05

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