Install SQLSRV driver on Linux, or other UTF-8 capable driver?

Question

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

Answer 1

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