Do I need to set ini_set( 'default_charset', 'UTF-8' );?

Question

My framework for each pages does the follow:

ini_set(\'mbstring.internal_encoding\',\'UTF-8\');
ini_set(\'mbstring.func_overload\',7);
header(\'Content-Type:         


        

Answer 1

Please see https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=29983 looks to me like some distros still have the problem

test case

echo "ini_get('default_charset') ". ini_get('default_charset')."
";

if (!ini_set('default_charset', 'utf-8')) {
echo "could not set default_charset to utf-8
";
}