Characters converted in an UTF-8 encoded POST

Question

I have a problem that in my production server all text in the post requests that contains non standard ascii characters are corrupted while the encoding is utf-8. On my development server the text is displayed fine.

print(mb_detect_encoding($_POST["text"]));
print($_POST["text"]);

Output is: utf-8 Ã?Ã?Ã? Ã?Ã?Ã? Ã?Ã?Ã?

while input is ÅÅÅ ÄÄÄ ÖÖÖ

I use <meta charset="UTF-8"> in the head and accept-charset="UTF-8" in the form.

<form id="announcement_form" method="post" action="php/announcment_bar.php" accept-charset="UTF-8">

Are you sure the original html page has been saved as utf8 ? — Al-Mutaz Bellah Ahmad Salahat, Mar 15 '17 at 23:12
You may find [**this post**](http://stackoverflow.com/a/279279/2341603) useful. — Obsidian Age, Mar 15 '17 at 23:13

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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From the link given to me by Obsidian Age the problem was that in the php.ini the default_charset. Since 5.6+ the default value of default_charset is set to UTF-8. That is the reason why it worked on my development server. However since out production server was older and installed before 5.6 it used the old default value which is none/commented out.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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answered Mar 15 '17 at 23:46

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Characters converted in an UTF-8 encoded POST

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