php strftime French characters

Question

I\'m working on a site where the user can switch between English and French. To output the date of posts.

If the user chooses French I use:

setlocale         


        

Answer 1

Had this issue but header(), utf8_encode() & setlocale() weren't working and we did not know the actual encoding. This is how we solved it (if it helps anyone) :

// $date_start is a DateTime instance
$month = strftime("%b", $date_start->getTimestamp());

// The default value for the 3rd argument is FALSE, this can cause issues
$encoding = mb_detect_encoding($month, 'auto', true);

// We can now correctly convert the string to UTF-8
$converted = mb_convert_encoding($month, 'UTF-8', $encoding);

Note: utf8_encode expects to encode from a ISO-8859-1 encoded string only.

Manual:

• DateTime::getTimestamp()
• mb_detect_encoding()
• mb_convert_encoding()