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Asked: June 5, 20262026-06-05T16:35:47+00:00 2026-06-05T16:35:47+00:00

I’m trying to work with French characters. For whatever reason, PHP won’t output them

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I’m trying to work with French characters. For whatever reason, PHP won’t output them correctly unless I force the ISO-8859-1 character set (which I really don’t want to do); it won’t let me use UTF-8.

So doing a print_r() of my array when I force ISO-8859-1 yields the following:

Array
(
[0] => stdClass Object
    (
        [language] => fr
        [langselect] => î
        [s1next] => Prochain
        [hascodespan] => Avez-vous déjà un code d'enregistrement?
        [s2prev] => Précédent
        [s2next] => Oui, j'ai déjà un code.
        [ecodedescription] => Un E-Code vous donne un accès exclusif à des événements vraiment cool. Si vous êtes dans le besoin d'un code, vous pouvez en acheter un dans notre boutique en ligne en visitant ce lien <a href="#"> boutique en ligne</ a>.
        [purchase] => Cliquez ici pour acheter en ligne billets
        [ecodespan] => S'il vous plaît entrer votre e-code
        [ecodelocdescription] => Votre code peut être trouvé ci-dessous le code à barres sur votre billet
        [s3prev] => Précédent
        [s3next] => Prochain
        [validationtext] => Validation E-Code ... Un instant.
    )

)

When using UTF-8, the output is as following:

Array
(
[0] => stdClass Object
    (
        [language] => fr
        [langselect] => �
        [s1next] => Prochain
        [hascodespan] => Avez-vous d�j� un code d'enregistrement?
        [s2prev] => Pr�c�dent
        [s2next] => Oui, j'ai d�j� un code.
        [ecodedescription] => Un E-Code vous donne un acc�s exclusif � des �v�nements vraiment cool. Si vous �tes dans le besoin d'un code, vous pouvez en acheter un dans notre boutique en ligne en visitant ce lien <a href="#"> boutique en ligne</ a>.
        [purchase] => Cliquez ici pour acheter en ligne billets
        [ecodespan] => S'il vous pla�t entrer votre e-code
        [ecodelocdescription] => Votre code peut �tre trouv� ci-dessous le code � barres sur votre billet
        [s3prev] => Pr�c�dent
        [s3next] => Prochain
        [validationtext] => Validation E-Code ... Un instant.
    )

)

In both instances, executing a json_encode() yields the following result:

[
    {
        language: "fr",
        langselect: null,
        s1next: "Prochain",
        hascodespan: null,
        s2prev: null,
        s2next: null,
        ecodedescription: null,
        purchase: "Cliquez ici pour acheter en ligne billets",
        ecodespan: null,
        ecodelocdescription: null,
        s3prev: null,
        s3next: "Prochain",
        validationtext: "Validation E-Code ... Un instant."
    }
]

I have my database set to UTF-8, yet for some odd reason every time I insert anything with French characters it reverts itself to some Western European encoding.

Mainly, I really need json_encode() to return valid results so I can use it in my translations. I have tried iconv() and utf8_encode(), but to no avail.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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    2026-06-05T16:35:48+00:00Added an answer on June 5, 2026 at 4:35 pm

    I managed to figure it out. It’s not really the solution I wanted but it works. I had to adjust my query to look like:

    CONVERT(CAST(langselect as BINARY) USING latin1) as langselect
    
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