HTML & PHP headers look fine but accents will still appear as �

Asked Nov 23 '18 at 08:48

Active Dec 08 '18 at 19:16

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I'm facing a quite new situation. I'm not an expert about charset, but as far as I know, all the chain should use the same encoding system.

If I put accents directly in the html code, they'll look fine. However, when I fetch data from my mysql database, all of them will be displayed like this : �, no matter if I echo them in the body or using scripts.

On the page, I have set this :

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">
<head>
<?php
header('Content-Type:text/html; charset=UTF-8');
?>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>

Regarding the database : the server uses UTF-8 Unicode (utf8) utf8_general_ci The table utf8_general_ci The fields utf8_general_ci

I'm running out of ideas.

edited Dec 08 '18 at 19:16

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asked Nov 23 '18 at 08:48

Vincent Monteil

Maybe the data you have in your database was corrupted already. Create a new entry containing some of those characters, and see if you got the same problem then. (FYI, outputting an XML prolog in that position is just nonsense.) – misorude Nov 23 '18 at 08:55
Which alphabet ? – MorganFreeFarm Nov 23 '18 at 08:55
Also note that sending a header after you have sent some html output, does not work. – jeroen Nov 23 '18 at 08:58
Thank you all, I'll be giving a try at your tips. @MorganFreeFarm, I'm using roman alphabet – Vincent Monteil Nov 23 '18 at 14:10

HTML & PHP headers look fine but accents will still appear as �

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