fgetcsv() ignores special characters when they are at the beginning of line!

Question

I have a simple script that accepts a CSV file and reads every row into an array. I then cycle through each column of the first row (in my case it holds the questions of a s

Answer 1

Are you setting your locale correctly before calling fgetcsv()?

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'fr_FR.UTF-8');

Otherwise, fgetcsv() is not multi-byte safe.

Make sure that you set it to something that appears in your list of available locales. On linux (certainly on debian) you can see this by doing

locale -a

You should get something like...

C
en_US.utf8
POSIX

For UTF8 support pick an encoding with utf8 on the end. If your input is encoded with something else you'll need to use the appropriate locale - but make sure your OS supports it first.

If you set the locale to a locale which isn't available on your system it won't help you.