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POPDO utf-8 character issue
 

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    <p>I'm currently working on a project, and instead of using regular MySQL queries I thought I'd go ahead and learn how to use PDO.</p> <p>I have a table called contestants, both the database, the table, and all of the columns are in utf-8. I have ten entries in the contestant table, and their column "name" contains characters such as åäö.</p> <p>Now, when I fetch an entry from the database, and var_dump the name, I get a good result, a string with all the special characters intact. But what I need to do is to split the string by characters, to get them in an array that I then shuffle.</p> <p>For instance, I have this string: <strong>Test ÅÄÖ Tåän</strong></p> <p>And when I run str_split I get each character in it's own key in an array. The only issue is that all the special characters display as this: �, meaning the array will be like this:</p> <pre><code>Array ( [0] =&gt; T [1] =&gt; e [2] =&gt; s [3] =&gt; t [4] =&gt; [5] =&gt; � [6] =&gt; � [7] =&gt; � [8] =&gt; � [9] =&gt; � [10] =&gt; � [11] =&gt; [12] =&gt; T [13] =&gt; � [14] =&gt; � [15] =&gt; � [16] =&gt; � [17] =&gt; n ) </code></pre> <p>As you can see, it not only messes up the characters, but it also duplicates them in str_split process. I've tried several ways to split the string, but they all have the same issue. When I output the string before the split, it shows the special characters just fine.</p> <p>This is my dbConn.php code:</p> <p>// Require config file: require_once('config.inc.php');</p> <pre><code>// Start PDO connection: $dbHandle = new PDO("mysql:host=$dbHost;dbname=$dbName;charset=utf-8", $dbUser, $dbPass); $dbHandle -&gt; exec("SET CHARACTER SET utf8"); // Set error reporting: $dbHandle-&gt;setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_WARNING); </code></pre> <p>And this is the code that I use to fetch from the database and loop:</p> <pre><code>// Require files: require_once('dbConn.php'); // Get random artist: $artist = $dbHandle-&gt;query("SELECT * FROM ".ARTIST_TABLE." WHERE id = 11 ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1"); $artist-&gt;setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_OBJ); $artist = $artist-&gt;fetch(); var_dump($artist-&gt;name); // Split name: $artistChars = str_split($artist-&gt;name); </code></pre> <p>I'm connecting with utf-8, my php file is utf-8 <strong>without BOM</strong> and no other special characters on this page share this issue. What could be wrong, or what am I doing wrong?</p>
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