Passing UNICODE chars using cURL

[malaiselvan]

Hi,

 

I am writing a PHP program to send SMS using HTTP API gateway.

I use cURL to launch the URL.

 

I am getting problems when I send UNICODE chars in the message.  I am getting simply square boxes instead of UNICODE chars.  When I launch the same URL directly in a browser it works well.

 

Following is the code snippet currently I have.

 

    $message = "unicode chars here";
    $launch_api = "http://xxxsss.com/send.php?message=".$message."&sender=aaa&to=xxxx&type=2&username=bbbb&password=cccc";
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$launch_api);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    $contents = curl_exec ($ch);

 

    curl_close ($ch);

 

Could some one please help me what I am missing?

[malaiselvan]

I think I need to set the charset to utf-8.  Could some one please help?

[johnny86]

$headers = array(
               "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset: UTF-8"
            );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);