Global utf8_encode

Is there a way to apply utf8_encode globally? I'm trying to get the entire page to load different languages properly without having to insert utf8_encode before every variable.

 echo '<p>'.utf8_encode($LANG_开发者_如何学JAVACALL_TO_ACTION).'</p>'

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The fact that you have to use utf8_encode this frequently is probably a symptom of an architectural problem.

utf8_encode is a function that converts iso-8859-1 encoded data to UTF-8.

In a modern setup, you won't need to use it at all: The incoming data will already be UTF-8 encoded.

If it is not, if the data comes from a legacy ISO-8859-1 database (which is totally okay), you should use an appropriate output encoding instead of UTF-8 (i.e. in this case ISO-8859-1).

It is also possible to globally convert the data if really, really necessary, but to give any advice on that, we'd need to know much more about your setup. It also is probably a bad idea to do.

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You might not have to. utf8_encode() is for converting an ISO-8859-1 string into a UTF8 encoded one - it does you no good if your data is already UTF-8 and you're just having display issues.

What it seems to me like you're after is to make sure all of your contents is displayed correctly as UTF-8, for which you just need to set the proper HTTP header.

My preferred method for doing so is this

ini_set( 'default_charset', 'UTF-8' );