PHP reads the file content through fread(). How to solve the problem of garbled Chinese characters?

Question

In PHP, files are read directly through the fread function. If the file content encounters Chinese characters, the problem will be garbled. How to solve this problem?

Answer 1

Try transcoding the content after reading it

iconv('gbk', 'utf-8', $data)

Answer 2

That’s because the encoding of your output page is inconsistent with the encoding of the file being read