Character Set issue using SQL Server and ODBC in php

Question

I connected to to sqlsever2008 with odbc(with dsn) and php but problem is that when I retrieve information from that it has character like ���������. My datatype in sqlserver is nvarchar. Any idea why it is happening?

NOTE: The page is utf8.

Edit:

I use echo utf8_encode(odbc_result($this->result,'name') ); and characters are like:

ÂãæÒÔ ÒÈÇäÂãæÒ 

i retrieve information like this:

odbc_result($this->result,'name')

Answer 1

i found the problem.

iconv("Windows-1256", "UTF-8", "$temp")

Answer 2

Try to use utf8_decode() or utf8_encode().

Answer 3

It seems, the code page your sql server has been installed is different with your native language. perhaps you need to reinstall the sql server with correct code page.