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Asked: 2026-06-09T03:30:12+00:00

I’m creating a php application that involves sending chinese characters as url parameters. I

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I’m creating a php application that involves sending chinese characters as url parameters.

I have to send query like :

http://xyz.com/?q=新

But the script at xyz.com won’t automatically encode the chinese character. So, I need to explicitly send an encoded string as the paramter. It becomes:

http://xyz.com/?q=%E6%96%B0

The problem is, PHP won’t encode the chinese character properly.

I’ve tried urlencode() and rawurlencode(). But they give %D0%C2 (doesn’t work for my purpose) instead of %E6%96%B0 (works well with xyz.com) as the output.

I’m using this website to create the latter encoded string.

I’ve also defined header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=gb2312'); to display chinese characters properly.

Is there anything I can do to urlencode the chinese character properly?

Thanks!

PS: I’m a relatively new programmer and don’t understand chinese.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You’re URLencoding using the charset you specify in your header. %D0%C2 is 新 in gb2312; %E6%96%B0 is 新 in UTF-8. Switch your charset over to UTF-8 and you should fix this issue and still be able to display Simplified Chinese Han.

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