Question

I am trying to create a facebook application (just learning) which will show unicode character. So I write this code:

<?php 
    $json = file_get_contents('https://graph.facebook.com/Answersge');
    $data = json_decode($json, true);
    echo $data['company_overview'];     
?>

This code was suppose to render like this:

იპოვეთ პასუხი ნებისმიერ კითხვაზე! Screenshot: https://i.stack.imgur.com/JJfKU.png

And it work as expected in firefox. But in Google Chrome and Internet Explorer is shows some thing like this:

იპáƒáƒ•áƒ”თ პáƒáƒ¡áƒ£áƒ®áƒ˜ ნებისმიერკითხვáƒáƒ–ე!

which is of course wrong. Is there anyway I can fix this?

Answer 1

Add the following tag before the title element:

<meta charset=utf-8>

You’re getting the data as utf-8 encoded and need to declare it as such. Without any declaration, browsers make a guess.