PHP5 UTF-8 encoding error - PHP4 works fine

Question

i'm having some troubles with UTF-8 encoding on a website. Calling my script using PHP5 all the umlauts (ä, ü, ö,...) look like this: Ã¶kflÃ¶dskÃ¶l

Calling the script using PHP4 shows everything as expected...

both php.ini look the same an so my question would be:

is there an other file where i can change the output encoding?

Thanks

Encoding is confusing - could be a PHP thing, an Apache thing or a MySql thing (assuming you're on *AMP ) — meouw
– meouw, Commented Feb 9, 2010 at 6:36
echo '<h1>'.nl2br(htmlentities($elem->headline)).'</h1>'; while $elem->headline is a String comming out of a Database. — Olivier
– Olivier, Commented Feb 9, 2010 at 6:44
Are you testing with a web browser? What encoding is sent in the headers? — Anders Lindahl
– Anders Lindahl, Commented Feb 9, 2010 at 6:54
oh thanks, encoding is iso-8859-1, don't know why but i'm going to change this — Olivier
– Olivier, Commented Feb 9, 2010 at 7:05

Thomas Winsnes · Accepted Answer · 2010-02-09 08:30:59Z

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You need to tell htmlentities to use UTF-8

htmlentities($foo, null, 'UTF-8');

I hope that helps :)

answered Feb 9, 2010 at 8:30

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Mp0int · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-04 15:45:43Z

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New Status: if i remove htmlentities() it all looks great...

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answered Feb 9, 2010 at 8:20

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