I am trying to GET values from url and I have ended up with

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Asked: May 22, 20262026-05-22T15:20:43+00:00 2026-05-22T15:20:43+00:00

I am trying to GET values from url
and I have ended up with a problem in IE
but all other browsers it works great.

This is my issue:

If text is some UTF-8 text as example:

$x=$_GET['txt'];
echo $x;

I got

???????

only in IE

still same problem and this is my all code

 <?php
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
$x=$_GET['id'];
echo $x;
?>

try with this word in id

سسسسسسس

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-22T15:20:44+00:00

You can put this meta tag inside the <head> if it’s a charset issue (as an alternative to using header inside PHP):

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

UPDATE

If you’re not encoding the value of x from the URL you should do something like:

<a href="page.php?x=<?php echo urlencode($string)?>">Link</a>

Using your sample text (سسسسسسس), once that’s encoded using urlencode it should like this:

%D8%B3%D8%B3%D8%B3%D8%B3%D8%B3%D8%B3%D8%B3

I got it working by adding a charset meta tag and doing a simple urldecode:

echo urldecode($_GET['x']);

See screenshot on IE:
enter image description here

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