UTF-8 and MS SQL

[sixstorm1]

Hi,

 

I cannot get UTF-8 to work with PHP and MSSQL. Running a query always return strings with '?' instead of the proper accents (like 'éàê')...

 

Here is my configuration:

- Windows Server 2008 R2 with IIS 7.5

- PHP 5.4.16 NTS

 

I've googled and tried the following suggestions, none of them worked:

- Adding 'mssql.charset="UTF-8"' to the ini file.

- Using ini_set('mssql.charset', 'UTF-8') before connecting.

 

All my fields are of type nvarchars. The PHP file itself is encoded using UTF-8 with signature - Codepage 65001. I've restarted W3SVC after making any of the changes mentioned above. One strange thing is that the mssql.charset does not appear in my php info page. I don't know if this is normal.

 

Here are the relevant lines of my PHP.ini:

 

[php_SQLSRV]
extension=php_sqlsrv_54_nts.dll
[php_PDO_SQLSRV]
extension=php_pdo_sqlsrv_54_nts.dll

[MSSQL]
mssql.charset="UTF-8"

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thank you!

[kicken]

Which API are you using to interact with the DB? sqlsrv_* functions, mssql_* functions, PDO w/ sqlsrv driver?

 

Using PDO, the following has always worked for me:

$stmt = $db->prepare($sql);
if (!$stmt){
	throw new SQLException($db, $sql);
}

$stmt->bindParam(':content', $content, PDO::PARAM_STR, null, PDO::SQLSRV_ENCODING_UTF8);
if (!$stmt->execute()){
	throw new DatabaseException($db, $stmt, $sql);
}