I want to populating my sql tables using PHP code. For words with accent like ('pépite') , they are inserted as 'pépite'. Some extra characters are inserted in my string. Here is my code:
$word = 'pépite';
$query = "Insert into [Tracker].[dbo].[Demo] values ('".$word."')";
sqlsrv_query($conn,$query);
echo $word;
// output : pépite
I have tried with utf8_decode as well. But this gives some abstract output.