Getting "Â" symbol from email message body from " " but still encoding as UTF-8

Asked Mar 29 '19 at 18:04

Active Mar 29 '19 at 18:33

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First yes I have read

HTML encoding issues - "Â" character showing up instead of " "

Let me explain my script

I have a cronjob that runs a php script using php-imap-client to retrieve emails from an inbox. At the top of this script I set header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

Even though I have set the encoding to UTF-8 I am still seeing that &nbsp is being encoded as Â

Eventually, the message body is inserted into MySQL and I can see the Â record so I know it is happening before MySQL. I double checked and MySQL is set to UTF-8 as well.

I also set the message body when retrieved with $message = utf8_encode($message) and that did not work

Is it possible to set the encoding on a php script even though it is executed with a cronjob?

Here is how I am retrieving the body of the message with php-imap-client

$message = $email->message->html.PHP_EOL;
$doc->loadHTML($message);
$message = $doc->saveHtml();

I am just not sure at what point the encoding is screwing up.

edited Mar 29 '19 at 18:33

asked Mar 29 '19 at 18:04

Cesar Bielich

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Where do you see it? In HTML? In a file? In the email client? – Dharman Mar 29 '19 at 18:14
Why would you set HTTP response headers on a script run by a cron job? Your text isn't Unicode, so just convert it using `iconv` or something similar. – miken32 Mar 29 '19 at 18:20
I edited my post. I am seeing it when inserted into MySQL – Cesar Bielich Mar 29 '19 at 18:34
well @miken32 that fixed the output part, but the insert didnt work. – Cesar Bielich Mar 29 '19 at 18:47
You don't "set the encoding of a cron job" you need to deal with the encoding every time you ingest and/or output data. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/279170/utf-8-all-the-way-through – Sammitch Mar 29 '19 at 18:58

Getting "Â" symbol from email message body from " " but still encoding as UTF-8

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