In mail.php.general, Merlin Morgenstern <merli...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I am having some trouble with utf-8 encoding. The html file containes 
> chinese characters and looks ok, when opened in a browser.
> 
> Now I want to extract some text from the file. In order to do this I do:
> 
> $handle = fopen($file, "r");
> $contents = fread($handle, filesize($file));
> 
> echo $contents;
> 
> The chinese characters are gone by then. They show up as questinomarks 
> or wired characters. To fix it I tried to add:
> 
> $contents = utf8_decode($contents);

You don't want this.

> header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8");

You do want this.

> But still... no luck :-(
> 
> Has somebody an idea why??

Try it with just the Content-Type: header addition.

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

Regards,
PG

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