How to print a unicode string in PHP

Question

I have this little script:

<?
header('Content-Type: text/javascript; charset=utf-8');
$s="L\u00e1szl\u00f3 M\u00e1rton";
echo $s;
?>

The browser displays "L \ u00e1szl \ u00f3 M \ u00e1rton"

and it should display Laszlo Merton.

What am I doing wrong?

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Pentium10 Apr 29. At 4:10 am

3 answers

Have you looked at the mbstring library in PHP?

This page shows you the basic handling of multibyte output lines.

Also, as stated in another answer, your encoding should be utf-8

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Mitch dempsey Apr 29. 10 at 4:17 am

try using charset = utf-8 instead of utf8

here's a useful resource for php charset problems: http://www.phpwact.org/php/i18n/charsets

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Keith Apr 29. 10 at 4:20 am

Your Common Sense · Accepted Answer · 2010-04-29T04:34:00+0000

Well, you need to understand the difference between server, browser and javascript.

To answer your question "How to print a Unicode string in PHP" is simple: just print it:

echo "László Márton";

But it looks like you want to print a Javascript encoded sequence. OK. But you need to print well-formed javascript.