Set internal encoding to UTF-8 for php

Use the following code in your script to set the internal php encoding to UTF-8:

/* Set internal character encoding to UTF-8 */ 
mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8"); 
mb_http_output( "UTF-8" ); 
ob_start("mb_output_handler");Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

Also, for mysql and postgres you should take into consideration the following two commands:

SET character_set_results = 'utf8', character_set_client = 'utf8', character_set_connection = 'utf8', character_set_database = 'utf8', character_set_server = 'utf8'Code language: JavaScript (javascript)
update pg_database set encoding = pg_char_to_encoding('UTF8') where datname = 'thedb'Code language: PHP (php)
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