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Asked: 2026-06-15T22:08:36+00:00

Have a really strange problem with UTF8 characters. I have the following: All my

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Have a really strange problem with UTF8 characters.

I have the following:

  • All my files are UTF-8

  • I am using (in my form): accept-charset="utf-8"

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

But for some reason when i post UTF8 characters like: ö ä å
And i then echo the $_GET[] the output show: ���

Feels like I’ve tried everything, all help is very welcome! 🙂

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  1. Editorial Team

    Browsers will send the data in same encoding as you declared to page to be. For a sanity test, run this page:

    <?php
header("Content-Type:text/html; charset=utf-8");
$file = basename(__FILE__);
if( isset( $_POST['data'] ) ) {
    echo $_POST['data'];
}
else {
    echo <<<HTML
        <form method="POST" action="$file">
            <input name="data" type="text">
            <input type="submit">
        </form>
HTML;
}

    Write “äöä” to the form and see if it’s right. If it isn’t, try to check your mbstring ini values for:

    <?php

var_dump(
    ini_get("mbstring.http_input"),
    ini_get("mbstring.http_output"),
    ini_get("mbstring.encoding_translation")
);

    The correct values are:

    string(4) "pass"
string(4) "pass"
string(1) "0"
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