PHP UTF-8 to Windows command line encoding

Question

Everything is in the question : I have a Php script that is a UTF-8 file. In this script I want to do this :

  <?
  echo "âêïû\n";
  ?>

If I run it in a Windows prompt I get this :

C:\php>php -c C:\WINDOWS\php.ini -f mysqldump.php
âêïû
C:\php>

I've not been able to find the right conversion scheme. I've tried also this code :

$tab = mb_list_encodings();
foreach ($tab as $enc1) {
  foreach ($tab as $enc2) {
    $t=mb_convert_encoding("âêïû\n", $enc1, $enc2);
    if (strlen($t)<14) {
      echo $enc1." ".$enc2." = ".$t."\n";
    }
  }
}

And I didn't find the right conversion !

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

The problem is Windows cmd line by default does not support UTF8. From this link, if you follow these

1. Open a command prompt window
2. Change the properties of the window to use something besides the default raster font. he Lucida Console True Type font seems to work well.
3. Run "chcp 65001" from the command prompt

You should be able to output utf8.

Answer 2

You put me on the right track but there was kinddof a problem (I love Windows \o/) :

C:\php>chcp 65001
Page de codes active : 65001
C:\php>php -c C:\WINDOWS\php.ini -f mysqldump.php | more
Mémoire insuffisante.

Mémoire insuffisante = not enough memory.

If I try

C:\php>chcp 1252
C:\php>php -c C:\WINDOWS\php.ini -f mysqldump.php
C:\php>ééîîïïÂÂÂÂâûü

it works. Only God knows why. But it works. Thanks for putting me on the right track !!

By the way the php code to go properly form UTF8 to command prompt is :

  echo mb_convert_encoding($utf8_string, "pass", "auto");

Answer 3

Try this another one. It's working with Russian encoding, I hope it will work with French:

class ConsoleHelper
{
    /**
     * @var boolean
     */
    private static $isEncodingSet = false;

    /**
     * @param string $message
     * @return string
     */
    public static function encodeMessage($message)
    {
        $isWindows = (DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR == '\\');
        if ($isWindows) {
            if ( ! self::$isEncodingSet) {
                shell_exec('chcp 866');
                self::$isEncodingSet = true;
            }
            $message = iconv('utf-8', 'cp866', $message);
        }
        return $message;
    }
}