I have both Apache and PHP configured to use UTF-8 for the default character set, yet it appears that the $_GET superglobal is still encoded in ISO-8859-1. Is the $_GET superglobal always encoded in ISO-8859-1?
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I have both Apache and PHP configured to use UTF-8 for the default character set, yet it appears that the $_GET superglobal is still encoded in ISO-8859-1. Is the $_GET superglobal always encoded in ISO-8859-1?
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$_GETsuperglobal is presented to PHP however the client sent it. Neither Apache nor MySQL modify it (or its encoding) along the way.In practice, the encoding of values in
$_GETmay depend on the browser. It’s often UTF-8, but you may need to fall back to ISO-8859-1 if it isn’t valid as UTF-8.