php send GET variable in chinese

[abdfahim]

Hi,

 

I am using the following code to send chinese characters via GET variable

$x = $transarr['Area']; // This contains chinese character read from a utf-8 text file
header("location: ++a.php?ab=$x");

 

in ++a.php file, the following code returns correct chinese characters in Mozilla Firefox, but in Internet Explorer, it shows "???". Anybody has any idea, please?

echo $_GET['ab']

[Dead6re]

This is most likely due to the encoding of the browser, you will need to tell PHP to send the header with character encoding UTF-8.

 

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');