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Asked: 2026-05-28T06:20:29+00:00

I try to read a CSV and echo the content. But the content displays

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I try to read a CSV and echo the content. But the content displays the characters wrong.

Mäx Müstermänn -> Mäx Müstermänn

Encoding of the CSV file is UTF-8 without BOM (checked with Notepad++).

This is the content of the CSV file:

"Mäx";"Müstermänn"

My PHP script

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
<?php
$handle = fopen ("specialchars.csv","r");
echo '<table border="1"><tr><td>First name</td><td>Last name</td></tr><tr>';
while ($data = fgetcsv ($handle, 1000, ";")) {
        $num = count ($data);
        for ($c=0; $c < $num; $c++) {
            // output data
            echo "<td>$data[$c]</td>";
        }
        echo "</tr><tr>";
}
?>
</body>
</html>

I tried to use setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE.utf8'); as suggested here without success. The content is still wrong displayed.

What I’m missing?

Edit:

An echo mb_detect_encoding($data[$c],'UTF-8'); gives me UTF-8 UTF-8.

echo file_get_contents("specialchars.csv"); gives me "Mäx";"Müstermänn".

And

print_r(str_getcsv(reset(explode("\n", file_get_contents("specialchars.csv"))), ';'))

gives me

Array ( [0] => Mäx [1] => Müstermänn )

What does it mean?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Now I got it working (after removing the header command). I think the problem was that the encoding of the php file was in ISO-8859-1. I set it to UTF-8 without BOM. I thought I already have done that, but perhaps I made an additional undo.

    Furthermore, I used SET NAMES 'utf8' for the database. Now it is also correct in the database.

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