Command line character encoding from PHP's exec()

Question

I\'m trying to pass UTF-8 text as an argument to a command line program using php\'s exec function and have been having problems. I suspect it\'s due to charact

Answer 1

Prefix the command with LANG = <language>.UTF8.

Example:

$ php -r "echo exec('LANG=\"en_US.UTF8\" locale charmap');"
UTF-8
$ php -r "echo exec('LANG=\"en_US.iso88591\" locale charmap');
ISO-8859-1

You should have the locale installed.