PHP Japanese echo string becomes question marks
php
Solution
You should change your file encoding to UTF-8 and set the header on the website to UTF-8.
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
in HTML5 you should use:
<meta charset="utf-8" />
or in php
header('content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
Problem
I'm working on a php site that needs both Japanese and English. In most places I have no trouble getting the Japanese to display correctly, but I can't get the characters to display if I use a function like this: echo.php: ``` <?php function draw(){ echo "日本語"; } draw(); ?> ``` I get "日本語" but if I try this : index.php: ``` <?php some stuff include "echo.php"; draw(); ?> ``` I get "???". Is there any way for me to get my echo file to send the data to the first file in a way it can read it? EDIT: The website works, and shows Japanese characters correctly, except when it tries to pull a function from a php file Here's the code: ``` <html lang="ja"> <head> <title>Running Projects</title> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body> <div id="header"> <? php include "layout.php" ?> </div> </body> </html> ``` Where layout.php is just a file with a list of links, I have this on each page so the links are on every page. For a different part, I have to use functions.php to get some data from a database and write it to the page, so, I tried putting layout.php into the functions.php and calling it: The English links appeared, but the Japanese links appeared as question marks.