Facebook API encoding issue

Question

I'm implementing facebook login on my site and the auth process works fine, but there is another problem. When I try to get the name of the user from the auth response, I'm getting this:

Array ( [name] => Ðиколай ДÑнков [image] => ...

This name is supposed to be in Cyrillic characters and I need to:

1. Display it to the user in cyrilic
2. Store it safely in database and be able to convert it back to cyrillic later

I tried using json_decode() and iconv() but no success. Maybe I can't get the parameters right. Please help!

Answer 1

Use header to modify the HTTP header:

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

Place it at the top of your php file or at a common file which you include everywhere, such as config file.