Question

I’m using the Twitter json API with PHP to show tweets on a website. I’ve now noticed that if the tweet contains a foreign character such as Ö then this shows up on the site ��.

In the json file the two question marks are \u00d6.

I’m using this script to get the json and decode it: http://pastebin.com/X3pjKrSi

Then I’m using jQuery ajax to put it on the site with

$(document).ready(function(){
            $.ajax({
                url: '<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/functions/twitter/twitter.php',
                contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
                data: "tweets=<?php echo $options['ct_tweets']; ?>&account=<?php echo $options['ct_twitter']; ?>",
                success: function(data) {
                    $('#twitter-loader').remove();
                    $('#twitter-container').html(data);
                }
            });
       });

Does anyone know what I would have to do to display the foreign characters?

The same characters works fine in the rest of the site (built in WordPress).

Thanks

Answer 1

You need to inform the browser you will be outputting UTF-8 content. You can do this by adding:

header("Content-Type:text/html; charset=UTF-8");

At the beginning of your PHP code.