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 did not notice someone to mention another way of converting results from MSSQL database. The good old iconv() function:

iconv (string $in_charset, string $out_charset, string $str): string;

In my case everything else failed to provide meaningful conversion, except this one when getting the results. Of course, this is done inside the loop of parsing the results of the query - from CP1251 to UTF-8:

foreach ($records as $row=>$col) {
    $array[$row]['StatusName'] = iconv ('CP1251', 'UTF-8' , $records[$row]['StatusName']);
}

Ugly, but it works.