PHP + SQL Server - How to set charset for connection?

Question

I\'m trying to store some data in a SQL Server database through php.

Problem is that special chars aren\'t converted properly. My app\'s charset is iso-8859-1 and th

Answer 1

I suggest looking at the following points:

1. Ensure that the columns that you're storing the information in are nchar or nvarchar as char and nvarchar don't support UCS-2 (SQLServer doesn't store in UTF-8 format btw)
2. If you're connecting with the mssql library/extension for PHP, run: ini_set('mssql.charset', 'utf-8'); as there's no function with a charset argument (connect, query etc)
3. Ensure that your browsers charset is also set to UTF-8