Re: Problem with PHP and file encoding

jonlau — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:23:03 GMT

i've similar problem where the PHP UTF-8 encoding works on window server 2000.

Just moved to IIS7+fastcgi on windows server 2008 and the php is showing ??? ( non-english chars)...it needs to support chinese, english & japanese languages.

Any solutions or setting in php.ini?

Regards,

Jon Lau

Problem with PHP and file encoding

Sevein — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:14:14 GMT

Hi! When I call session_start() PHP function, PHP engine (through FastCGI) gives me the next warning:

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at D:\foo\bar.utf8.php:1) in C:\foo\bar.utf8.php on line 1

The only way I found to avoid this problem is setting my scripts file encoding to ANSI. Actually, I discover that:

If my script file encoding is ANSI, everything is okay.
If my script file encoding is UTF-8, I receive the warning described before happens.
If my script file encoding is Unicode (UTF-16, UCS-2) the web server doesn't give a response, so my browser gets waiting for it.

Talking about my case, UTF-8, the problem seems to be that some output is beeing sent before the header sent by my script. Actually, I can reproduce the same problem with this simple script file:

<?php header("Location: http://forums.iss.net"); ?>

So, as I expected, the warning received is:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\foo\bar.utf8.php:1) in C:\foo\bar.utf8.php on line 1

Of course, this problem is solved when I enable ouput_buffering in PHP, allowing my scripts to modify headers whenever. Do you think this is a bug or something wrong in my IIS7/FastCGI/php.ini configuration?

Thanks in advance,

Jesús García Crespo

IIS 7 - FastCGI Module

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