PHP: german date umlauts won't work even with setlocale

Asked Dec 16 '15 at 09:46

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I googled quite a bit and tried to find out why my german date won't put out "03. März 2016" but instead always prints "03. M�rz 2016"

<?php 
    $event_date_format = DateTime::createFromFormat('Ymd', $event_date[0]);


    setlocale(LC_TIME, 'de_DE', 'de_DE.UTF-8');
    echo strftime("%A, %d. %B %Y", $event_date_format->getTimestamp()); // Donnerstag, 03. M�rz 2016

    echo $event_date_format->format('F'); // March
?>

Looks like this:

Umlauts work correctly and fine for the rest of the page.

I was able to fix it with

$fmt = new IntlDateFormatter('de_DE' ,IntlDateFormatter::FULL, IntlDateFormatter::NONE, 'Europe/Berlin', IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN);
$fmt->setPattern("MMMM");
$event_date_format = DateTime::createFromFormat('Ymd', $event_date[0]);
echo $fmt->format($event_date_format);

edited Dec 16 '15 at 14:13

asked Dec 16 '15 at 09:46

matt

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Do you have `` on the page? – urban Dec 16 '15 at 09:48
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You also need to specify PHP header to be UTF8: `header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');` (may also need HTML header, ``). – Qirel Dec 16 '15 at 09:48
yes, I have this in my header file: http://i.imgur.com/V6WGBqz.png – matt Dec 16 '15 at 09:53
@matt You need to tell PHP (and not just HTML) to deal with UF8 too, see the above comment. – Qirel Dec 16 '15 at 09:54
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Every possible gotcha with UTF-8 : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/279170/utf-8-all-the-way-through/279279 (i.e. possible duplicate) – CD001 Dec 16 '15 at 09:54
@Qirel I already tried, but no luck. – matt Dec 16 '15 at 11:35
@Matt what is the encoding of the file itself? – Qirel Dec 16 '15 at 12:05
How do I find out what encoding my file has? – matt Dec 16 '15 at 12:29
@matt What kind of editor/IDE do you use? – Qirel Dec 16 '15 at 14:14

PHP: german date umlauts won't work even with setlocale

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