SOAP-ERROR: Encoding: string … is not a valid utf-8 string

Question

Hi I have a web service built using the Zend Framework. One of the methods is intended to send details about an order. I ran into some encoding issue. One of the values bein

Answer 1

Today I run into same problem - the code which caused that problem was:

$request->Text = substr($text, 0, 40);

changing substr to mb_substr seems to solve the issue:

$request->Test = mb_substr($text, 0, 40, 'utf8');