How to properly display Chinese characters in PHP?

Question

I have these Chinese characters:

汉字/漢字\'\'test

If I do

echo utf8_encode($chinesevar);

it displays

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Answer 1

Look that your file is in UTF8 without BOM and that your webserver deliver your site in UTF-8

HTML:

in PHP:

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

And if you work with a database look that your database is in UTF-8 if you read the text from your database.