Question

 $fql = 'SELECT name from user where uid = ' . $user;
            $result = $this->facebook->api(array(
                                       'method' => 'fql.query',
                                       'query' => $fql,
                                     ));
var_dump($result);

I select my name from facebook the result is not encoded right Škofja Loka is Å kofja Loka . I have tried to change this utf_encode and utf_decode, but it does not work.

Answer 1

"Š" is not in ISO-8859-1 so utf8_decode/utf8_encode, which convert from and to ISO-8859-1, cannot deal with it. You should never use those functions anyway, PHP is perfectly fine with UTF-8 without any decoding or encoding.

It looks like all you need is the http header for UTF-8 charset though:

<?php
//Before any output
header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8");

...


 $fql = 'SELECT name from user where uid = ' . $user;
            $result = $this->facebook->api(array(
                                       'method' => 'fql.query',
                                       'query' => $fql,
                                     ));
var_dump($result);