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UTF-8 problems while reading CSV file with fgetcsv

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I try to read a CSV and echo the content. But the content displays the characters wrong.





Mäx Müstermänn -> Mäx Müstermänn





Encoding of the CSV file is UTF-8 without BOM (checked with Notepad++).





This is the content of the CSV file:





"Mäx";"Müstermänn"





My PHP script







<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

</head>

<body>

<?php

$handle = fopen ("specialchars.csv","r");

echo '<table border="1"><tr><td>First name</td><td>Last name</td></tr><tr>';

while ($data = fgetcsv ($handle, 1000, ";")) {

        $num = count ($data);

        for ($c=0; $c < $num; $c++) {

            // output data

            echo "<td>$data[$c]</td>";

        }

        echo "</tr><tr>";

}

?>

</body>

</html>







I tried to use setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE.utf8'); as suggested here without success. The content is still wrong displayed.





What I'm missing?


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  1. Tips For AllJanuary 17, 2012 at 1:26 AM

    Try putting this into the top of your file (before any other output):

    <?php

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

    ?>

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