上传的文件内容被回显但未显示重音符号

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INT. PALO TORCIDO HIGH SCHOOL, CAFETER�A - DAY

Hi, I uploaded a .txt to my server and got the contents with fopen/fread and alsot used file_get_contents just in case.

I can't seem to figure out how to encode the special characters...

In my HTML i have my UTF set to 8. I also tried a PHP HEADER to use UTF-8 encoding.

what is the proper way to handle files with letters not part of the english alphabet?

Answer 1

Try utf8_encode()

echo utf8_encode(file_get_contents('file.txt'));

This works if the *.txt is encoded in Latin1. If other encoding may be used too, detect the encoding using mb_detect_encoding() and encode it to UTF8 with mb_convert_encoding()