Question

I am aware that there were some similar problems. However after reading answers and gooling about the topic I am still struggling with displaying Russian letters in the browser. I have them stored inside .csv file (which is encoded in UTF-8 no BOM). In my php file which reads .csv (which is also encoded in UTF-8 no BOM) I declared charset:

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

To open and iterate through .csv file I am using following code:

  if(($handle = fopen($path, "r")) !== FALSE) {
    while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, $delimiter)) !== FALSE) {
      ...
    }
  }

and either nothing is displayed or something like this:

 -ам-Зее

instead of

 Целль-ам-Зее

Any ideas what else I can try?

UPDATE:

After setting browser encoding to UTF-8 I get correct russian letters. However still some of the text is not displayed at all. I suspect that I do something incorectly while reading .csv file, the simplified version is:

     if(($handle = fopen($path, "r")) !== FALSE) {
       while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, $delimiter)) !== FALSE) {
         echo $data[1];
        }
     }

( I omit first column and display the content of the second one, which is always filled )

Answer 1

You need to set correct locale on your server.

if(!setlocale(LC_ALL, 'ru_RU.utf8')) 
    setlocale(LC_ALL, 'en_US.utf8');

And then you can check if your server has accepted needed locale

if(setlocale(LC_ALL, 0) == 'C')
    echo 'Error setting locale';

The problem is in fgetcsv function which is using incorrect locale. If you have no possibility to change locale you could replace fgetcsv function with your own using explode