Why isn't my utf8 working in my php page?

Question

I searched for a lot of answers here but i still have a problem with the UTF8. "Special" letters doesn't appear in my browser. I'm using: php Designer 8 Wampserver 3.1.4_x86 MySQL 5.6 Navicat100_premium I'm using Google

[ This is what appears in my page those "?" are all "çççççççç"

This is the beginning of the code:

<html>
<title> APPACDM </title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://www.w3schools.com/w3css/4/w3.css"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css"/>
header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

*"I searched for a lot of answers here"* ... Did you find [this one](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/279170/utf-8-all-the-way-through/279279)? - it's pretty much the defacto answer to every UTF-8 issue you could possibly experience. — CD001, Feb 26 '19 at 16:22

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 26 '19 at 16:45

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Everything looks in the wrong order to me. If this is a HTML page with embedded PHP try this:

<?php
    header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title> APPACDM </title>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"/>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://www.w3schools.com/w3css/4/w3.css"/>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
</head>

Note: always set your PHP Header response before any HTML output. Always wrap PHP in PHP tags, not plain text as in your example.

See here: PHP Header command

Thanks,

Shaun.

answered Feb 26 '19 at 16:45

Shaun Bebbers

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You might also need to look at HTTP response codes as well. – Shaun Bebbers Feb 26 '19 at 16:47
... and you've fixed the structurally broken HTML for free as well ;) – CD001 Feb 26 '19 at 16:48
Yes focus on doing the basics well, that's what I always tell the junior devs in my team. – Shaun Bebbers Feb 26 '19 at 16:49
Still not working, is it the versions that aren't compatible? – WAV3X Feb 26 '19 at 16:52
I don't yet have enough information to answer your question; I am only able to correct what I see. – Shaun Bebbers Feb 26 '19 at 16:54

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 26 '19 at 18:50

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If this data is queried from a database then you can do the following:
[PDO version]

$bdd->exec("set names utf8");

[MYSQLI version]

mysqli_set_charset($bdd, "utf8");

edited Feb 26 '19 at 18:50

Tibs

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answered Feb 26 '19 at 16:26

WolfCode

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Why isn't my utf8 working in my php page?

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