How to echo string with special characters?

Question

I have the below string (in Turkish):

$string = "Otpor lideri Maroviç: Gezi eylemcileriyle temasımız olmadı";

However, when I attempt to echo the string, I get the below result:

Otpor lideri Maroviç: Gezi eylemcileriyle temas?m?z olmad?

How can I solve this problem?

possible duplicate of [UTF-8 all the way through](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/279170/utf-8-all-the-way-through) — naththedeveloper, Dec 01 '14 at 13:44
use htmlentities function http://stackoverflow.com/questions/46483/htmlentities-vs-htmlspecialchars — Wajihurrehman, Dec 01 '14 at 13:45

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 01 '14 at 13:43

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First of all:

$string = "Otpor lideri Maroviç: Gezi eylemcileriyle temasımız olmadı";
echo htmlentities($string);

And make sure to add... to your head

<meta charset="UTF-8">

answered Dec 01 '14 at 13:43

AwesomeGuy

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If it worked, please accept my answer, as I gave you working code, first. – AwesomeGuy Dec 01 '14 at 13:52

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 01 '14 at 13:45

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header('Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8');
$string = "Otpor lideri Maroviç: Gezi eylemcileriyle temasımız olmadı";
echo $string;

answered Dec 01 '14 at 13:45

fortune

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 01 '14 at 13:47

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Open your file with code editor ex. Notepad++ and use "Convert to UTF-8" function. This should help. Here in Poland we are also using special characters and this is a common problem.

answered Dec 01 '14 at 13:47

Tikky

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How to echo string with special characters?

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