Japanese text not showing correctly on PHP

Question

I'm am having some issues showing Japanese text on my English utf-8 website I have tried the following

<?= $japan[artist];?> but it prints out like this æ¤Žåæž—æªŽ

I have tried to encode it that does not even print it out and I have tried html_entity_decode( $text, ENT_QUOTES, "utf-8" );

If I knew how to encode the Japanese text into UTF-8 that would help I think, but I cant seem to find any information on this or the PHP function.

The database is MongoDB not MYSQL

It worths noting that the text gets saved in JapaneseA text and not utf-8

If data comes from MySQL DB, Then check also for locale set 'character set utf8 collate utf8_general_ci' — kuldeep.kamboj, Jun 18 '14 at 05:09
If your website is already UTF-8 encoded properly, then this looks like a double encoding (if you used an UTF-8 capable feed reader for that itunes feed). Ensure the database has the data correctly and returns it as UTF-8 then. — hakre, Jun 22 '14 at 19:46

Mohammad Kermani · Answer 1 · 2014-06-26T03:55:39.197

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I use Persian language and some time have this problem, I think it is not PHP problem, maybe one of this suggestion is your answer:

1-Change your editor encoding to utf-8

2-If using database set it to utf8_general_ci

3-Add this html tag to head of your pages:

old tag(HTML4)

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

and HTML5:

<meta charset="utf-8"/>

edited Jun 26 '14 at 03:55

answered Jun 18 '14 at 05:13

Mohammad Kermani

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