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Simon Franzen
Simon Franzen

Reputation: 2727

Apache Server with PHP 7.1 has wrong encoding settings. strftime and strtotime return wrong format

I am a bit confused why the standard server settings here are giving back the wrong encoding format. On my local machine everything works fine: An CMS backend displays the current month as a string in German and for 03 (March) it returns 'Mär'.

On the server it returns "M�r" back. I know that this is caused while output ISO format in UTF-8, without encoding it (utf8_encode).

<?php
setlocale(LC_ALL,"de_DE");

echo var_dump((strftime('%b', strtotime('2007-03-01'))));

// Output -> string(3) "M�r"

How to change the server settings, that PHP uses UTF-8 and not the ISO format for dates? I cannot use utf8_encode function because it's the CMS which uses PHP strftime and strtotime function.

the default server php.ini already include default_charset = 'UTF-8' in my htaccess I included AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

Upvotes: 1

Views: 475

Answers (1)

Simon Franzen
Simon Franzen

Reputation: 2727

Thanks to @apokryfos who sent me to the right direction. Like in the docs mentioned the function strftime() use the locales installed in your system (linux).

...the result will use the iso-8859-1 charset even if you have all your system, files and configuration options in UTF-8...

In the config of my CMS a had to revert that line:

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE');

to explicitly use UTF-8 version

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE.utf8');

Upvotes: 1

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