PHP utf8 encoding

[theimmortalbg]

hello i have problem with reading utf-8 text from normal text file with utf8 encoding. I am bulgarian i want to read and write bulgarian text but i cant.

        $fh = fopen("pics/names.txt", 'r');

        $theData = fread($fh, 5);

fclose($fh);

        echo $theData;

 

This is what i use. Iam with windows 7. Pls help me...

[nafetski]

You need to tell the browser (via meta tag) that you're using UTF-8.  Should fix your prob!

[theimmortalbg]

i hava that tag  <meta content="text/html" charset="utf-8" />  in the php file and i dont want to have tags in clear text txt file from which i read

[nafetski]

Hrmn, what does your output look like?

 

Most encoding issues stem from the fact that the file (or database table) isn't in UTF-8, or the browser isn't rendering it as UTF-8.

[theimmortalbg]

��� this is the output

[theimmortalbg]

i check charset is utf-8 with mb_detect_encoding() function and i know it because i use notepad++ for opening the txt file and I set it from there in utf-8 without BOM

[nafetski]

Alright, next step would be put a character that you know is just utf-8 and echo it out. 

 

If that works, then it's a file problem.  If it doesn't, it's either a config or browser issue

[theimmortalbg]

it works when echo something in bulgarian but dont work from file ... what i shoud do it must have any way