Php in Windows - exec output array character encoding

Question

I have a simple script that executes something like:

exec("x.bat", $array);

x.bat returns some special Latin characters, like áéí`'ñ, etc. They are completely garbled in the output array. I've tried setting both the page charset to Windows-1252 and sending "chcp 850" to the cmd before x.bat, but no matter, it always comes out garbled.

Any ideas?

Daniel Krom · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-13 12:53:51Z

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this solved me the issue once also with special characters

exec("x.bat > result.txt 2>&1");
$data = file_get_contents("result.txt");

+make sure you are adding at the beginning of your php code, the header charset:

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=Windows-1252');

answered Aug 13, 2015 at 12:53

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Max M. Fuhlendorf Over a year ago

Thanks! I got around to doing just that after a lot of fiddling; Shame there's no easier way, but it worked fine.

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