Special characters and their output (utf-8)

I struggle with the problem that special characters (Ö, Ü, Ä, ß) are not output correctly. I have check these points:

- <meta charset="utf-8">
- $config['charset'] = 'UTF-8';
- database: utf8_unicode_ci


I have already written a function, that works even with normal output:

PHP Code:

function utf8_ausgabe ($str) {
    
    return mb_convert_encoding($str, 'HTML-ENTITIES', 'utf-8');
} 


... but in form inputs, it doesn't work. Of course, as well as the '&' is converted.

without convert function:

with convert function:

Do you have a solution for this?

Thanks in advance

HTML 5

PHP Code:

<form action="/action_page.php" accept-charset="ISO-8859-1">

</form> 


See the accept charset in the form opening line

Try that and see if it works.

What did you Try? What did you Get? What did you Expect?

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HTML 5

PHP Code:

<form action="/action_page.php" accept-charset="ISO-8859-1">

</form> 


See the accept charset in the form opening line

Try that and see if it works.

Thanks, but unfortunately that did not bring a solution

Your PHP files Controller, Model and View needs to be UTF-8. Your files are in ANSI in the moment. I don't know what texteditor you are using but simple Google "[name] ANSI to UTF-8 Without BOM"

Your PHP files Controller, Model and View needs to be UTF-8. Your files are in ANSI in the moment. I don't know what texteditor you are using but simple Google "[name] ANSI to UTF-8 Without BOM"

Thank you, that was probably the solution. I had already checked all relevant files. But one controller file was still with incorrect encoding.