The character of portuguese can't print on php, what must i do?

Question

i try to print this word,

echo "AUTO DETENÇÃO"

but the output is AUTO DETENÃ‡ÃƒO . This word is Portuguese.

i have read thats question ,,,[http://stackoverflow.com/questions/279170/utf-8-all-the-way-through]. this is what i do, `` but the result always like this AUTO DETENÃ‡ÃƒO. — Akbar, Jul 02 '13 at 10:06

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 02 '13 at 09:35

Looks like your script file is saved as utf-8 but the data is sent to the client as if it was iso-8859 (or similar) encoded.
try

ini_set('default_charset', 'utf-8');

in your script before any output is sent to the client.
Then PHP will send an http response header that informs the client about the utf-8 encoding.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 02 '13 at 09:37

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Be sure your encoding is set to a proper option for your language like UTF-8:

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

answered Jul 02 '13 at 09:37

Th3Alchemist

Is your HTML set with the meta tag for correct encoding? – Th3Alchemist Jul 02 '13 at 11:14

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 02 '13 at 09:40

A good solution is to change the unicode to UTF-8 encoding . I think you are using some other type of encoding .

          <?php

          ini_set("default_charset", "utf-8");

          ?>

If you are saving Portuguese word with your script, Select UTF-8 encoding while you save the document.

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