How font works in Unicode

Question

I copied some chinese font and pasted in Sublime editor:

<?php
echo "木 mù";
?>

Now next I run it on Google browser test.php, it displays:

æœ¨ mÃ¹

So here you can see the characters that I'm using in echo and the character that browser is displaying are different. So my question is that: is it browser that does not support the font or is it PHP who does not understand it and displaying different result?

I need to declare('any character-set') in PHP file?

The browser understands the font, since me and you are both seeing it in the question. The problem is that PHP didn't set the encoding for the character it is inputting, so it doesn't knows how to properly display the character. — Phiter, Feb 22 '16 at 18:03
Possible duplicate of [UTF-8 all the way through](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/279170/utf-8-all-the-way-through) — chris85, Feb 22 '16 at 18:04
[ UTF-8 all the way through](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/279170/utf-8-all-the-way-through) is so advance i can not understand this link. — Dhairya Lakhera, Feb 22 '16 at 18:08
@PhiterFernandes what proper encoding should be there? PHP take by default utf-8. — Dhairya Lakhera, Feb 22 '16 at 18:10
@Thomas Orlita thanks its work. but now i come to another point. if php take by default utf-8 character encoding then what is the use of . i think it need to work without — Dhairya Lakhera, Feb 22 '16 at 18:12
Then set header before any output: `header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');` — Thomas Orlita, Feb 22 '16 at 18:20

Thomas Orlita · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-22T18:43:52.080

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1. Set following meta tag in HTML

<meta charset="utf-8">

Documentation.

2. Set header via PHP

Use following code before any output to set header to utf-8 charset.

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

PHP header() function.

edited Feb 22 '16 at 18:43

answered Feb 22 '16 at 18:37

Thomas Orlita

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How font works in Unicode

1 Answers1

1. Set following meta tag in HTML

2. Set header via PHP