Displaying hebrew strings in php

Question

My code looks like this:

<?php
echo "בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ.";

The output in the webbrowser is:

בְּרֵ×ש×ִית, ×‘Ö¼Ö¸×¨Ö¸× ×ֱלֹהִי×, ×ֵת הַשּ×ָמַיִ×, וְ×ֵת ×”Ö¸×ָרֶץ.

Which steps should I take to make the browser to show:

בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ.

Answer 1

You need to tell the browser that your page is utf8-encoded. This is done by setting the Content-type-header:

header('Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8');

Use text/html instead of text/plain if you want to print an html page.