Data from oracle in utf-8 with php

Question

i have a problem about getting data from oracle database. How to get data in utf-8? browser shows symbols with echo, but data from oracle has ? marks instead of letters

Answer 1

Use this to make database connection:

$conn = oci_connect(username,pass, $tns2 , 'AL32UTF8')

Answer 2

set php encoding to utf 8

mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8");

link for more http://php.net/manual/en/function.mb-internal-encoding.php

Answer 3

Simple solution. Only add 'AL32UTF8' to line if ($conn = oci_connect(username,pass, $tns2 , 'AL32UTF8')) Everything works now. Thank you for help