Question

In my controller I’m getting product data from Affilinet API in the form of xml, and creating an html string for product listing. After that I use php json_encode function to encode an array containing that html, something like

$data = array('listHtml' => $listHtml,'pagingHtml':$pagingHtml);
echo json_encode($data);

On my staging and live servers, the code is working perfectly fine, but with the same data, the code is returning me this on local server

{"listHtml":null,"pagingHtml":"some html"}

The $listHtml includes some german characters. The problem is that on my online servers, the code treats $listHtml as UTF-8 encoded, but on local server it’s treated as something else.

Other than that, if I print out a string including some German characters, it works fine on online servers but the German characters are messed up on local server. So how do I configure my local server to interpret text as UTF-8 encoded

Answer 1

If you use Apache, then you can change the httpd.conf file and add or change (if it’s already there) to:

    AddDefaultCharset utf-8