SQLSRV is the only driver for PHP that is capable of storing UTF-8 strings into two-byte columns (NVARCHAR instead of VARCHAR) which is cu
NVARCHAR
VARCHAR
Please change:
echo -e "; priority=20\nextension=pdo_sqlsrv.so" > /etc/php/7.0/mods- available/pdo_sqlsrv.ini
to:
echo -e "; priority=20\nextension=pdo_sqlsrv.so" > /etc/php/7.0/mods-available/pdo_sqlsrv.ini