PHP print() Arabic string

Question

When I try and execute this code to print out an Arabic string: print(\"إضافة\"); I get this output: إضاÙØ©. If I utf8_decode() it I\'ll get <

Answer 1

You may want to set

default_charset = "utf-8"

in your php.ini. Default charset directive instructs the server to produce correct content type header.

You can also do it in runtime:

ini_set('default_charset', 'utf-8');