php - htmlspecialchars with unicode

Question

    $string = "Główny folder grafik<p>asd nc</p>";

echo htmlspecialchars($string);

on live site

G&#322;ówny folder grafik<p>asd nc</p>

on local

Główny folder grafik<p>asd nc</p>

what is problem ? i want when run on live site result look like local

Answer 1

htmlspecialchars() accepts additional parameters -- the third one being the charset.

Try specifying that third parameter.

Answer 2

You need to add extra parameters to the htmlspecialchars() function. The following should work:

htmlspecialchars($string, ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8");