PHP Turkish Language displaying issue

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I have been trying to display my text in PHP but I am getting issue from Turkish characters it display it as Ä±Ä±Ä±Ã¶Ã¶Ã¶

I am reading data from MySQL but the issue is from the PHP. Please what it is missing?

My code is simple:

<?php

echo "ş i ü ğ";

?>

possible duplicate of [UTF-8 all the way through](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/279170/utf-8-all-the-way-through) — Pekka, Aug 21 '13 at 13:39
Your file is probably saved as UTF-8, but your web page is probably being output in a single by encoding (e.g. ISO-8859-1). The best thing to do is probably to change the page's encoding to UTF-8 also. — Pekka, Aug 21 '13 at 13:40
possible duplicate of [Character Encoding problem?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2537740/character-encoding-problem) — Michael, Aug 21 '13 at 13:40
As one of the TOP GUNS always mentions about this type of problem, your encoding must be done from `A to Z`, starting from the file's encoding format, right up to DB insertion/retrieval, mainly `UTF-8`. — Funk Forty Niner, Aug 21 '13 at 13:46
@LuaiKalkatawi Get a copy of Notepad++ and you will have different methods to save in UTF-8. If all fails, then you may need to "Encode as UTF-8 without BOM". Visit the site => http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ — Funk Forty Niner, Aug 21 '13 at 13:50
The file likely already is UTF-8. Now add the proper headers to declare the page is UTF-8 and it should work. — Pekka, Aug 21 '13 at 13:52

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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Check, if your website is in UTF-8.

Just copy following code to the <header> tag of your documment:

<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=utf-8'>

Or you can use just shorter version according to HTML5. Compatibility is fine:

<meta charset='utf-8'>

See difference between this two metatags: <meta charset="utf-8"> vs <meta http-equiv="Content-Type">

Or you can use header. This code place into your PHP code. The best position is at the start of the document.

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

Or check if your file is in UTF-8. This you can do with your code editor. I use PSPad and i recommend it to try.

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answered Aug 21 '13 at 13:41

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The `header(...)` should have immediate effect and give a correct result. – Joop Eggen Aug 21 '13 at 13:42
I have tried this before could you just explain to me where I am going to use it exactly? I don't know much about web service. – Luai Kalkatawi Aug 21 '13 at 13:55
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It works after I just added the header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); – Luai Kalkatawi Aug 21 '13 at 14:10

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 21 '13 at 13:45

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In addition to meta headers, the file's own character encoding is also important. I had suffered from the same issue with the files generated with notepad++ and notepad back in Windows, then I saved the file as UTF-8 and it all solved it.

E.g: with Sublime Text; file/save with encoding/UTF-8.

answered Aug 21 '13 at 13:45

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Notepad++ shouldn't "create" a problem, unlike Windows Notepad. Notepad++ has different encoding methods. I use Notepad++ with success all the time. – Funk Forty Niner Aug 21 '13 at 13:48
@Fred-ii- I don't know, I am the main translator of PHP-Fusion to Turkish, and Notepad++ made me suffer from that exactly issue a couple of years ago (I had to type ascii equivalents of all Turkish characters). I don't know about the current situation though. – Arda Aug 21 '13 at 13:51
One of the causes could be if saved with or without BOM. That has made a difference in a lot of cases for me. Someone should have thought about upcoming problems using characters as such, what a pain in the neck it is :( it's a constant battle. – Funk Forty Niner Aug 21 '13 at 13:53
You might consider trying out HAPedit 3.1 or Codelobster PHP Edition. I find that they have options that Notepad++ does not have. – Funk Forty Niner Aug 21 '13 at 13:54
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@Fred-ii- I was using PHPDesigner after that chaos for a while, but I dropped Windows environment for development totally (and gladly personally!). As a current Linux User, Sublime Text is exactly suits my needs, Thanks though!:) – Arda Aug 21 '13 at 13:57

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