Facebook API encoding issue

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I'm implementing facebook login on my site and the auth process works fine, but there is another problem. When I try to get the name of the user from the auth response, I'm getting this:

Array ( [name] => ÐÐ¸ÐºÐ¾Ð»Ð°Ð¹ Ð”ÑÐ½ÐºÐ¾Ð² [image] => ...

This name is supposed to be in Cyrillic characters and I need to:

Display it to the user in cyrilic
Store it safely in database and be able to convert it back to cyrillic later

I tried using json_decode() and iconv() but no success. Maybe I can't get the parameters right. Please help!

Quite possibly it's your application's charset that's breaking it. You should only use UTF-8. — Narf
– Narf, Commented Nov 5, 2014 at 10:52

Ivan Dokov · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-05 11:23:52Z

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Use header to modify the HTTP header:

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

Place it at the top of your php file or at a common file which you include everywhere, such as config file.

answered Nov 5, 2014 at 11:23

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