How to set UTF-8 encoding for a PHP file

Question

I have a PHP script called       http   cyber-flick com apiMorpho php method getMorphoData amp word kot   That displays some data in plain text   Cz   L     mowy  rzeczownik Przypadek  dopeL niacz Rodzaj  LzeL ski Liczba  mnoga   As you can see in place of proper chars there are so  bushes   What i would like to do is display this in a way so that people see in browser proper UTF-8 characters   You can encapsulate it in HMTL tags and set in meta UTF-8 encoding  but because the data received from this script will be processed further I don t want to use any HTML tags  it should be only plain text result set   So is there a way to inform browser that this file is UTF-8 without using meta tags   PS  File is encoded in UTF-8 and if I manually change charset encoding in my browser to UTF-8 it displays ok  but what I want to acomplish is people to not be required to do so

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PHP  by default  always returns the following header   Content-Type  text html   notice no charset   therefore you must use   lt  php header  Content-type  text plain  charset utf-8      gt

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You have to specify what encoding the data is  Either in meta or in headers  header  Content-Type  text plain  charset utf-8

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header  Content-type  text plain  charset utf-8

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Html   lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt html gt   lt head gt   lt meta http-equiv  quot Content-Type quot  content  quot text html  charset ISO-8859-1 quot  gt   lt meta name  quot x quot  content  quot xx quot    gt   vs Php   lt  php header  Content-type  text html  charset ISO-8859-1      gt   lt  DOCTYPE HTML gt   lt html gt   lt head gt   lt meta name  quot x quot  content  quot xx quot    gt

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Try this way header  Content-Type  text plain  charset utf-8

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HTML file     lt head gt    lt meta charset  utf-8  gt    lt  head gt    PHP file      lt  php header  Content-type  text plain  charset utf-8      gt

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Also note that setting a header to  text plain  will result in all html and php  in part  printing the characters on the screen as TEXT  not as HTML  So be aware of possible HTML not parsing when using text type plain   Using   header  Content-type  text html  charset utf-8      Can return HTML and PHP as well  Not just text

[php] How to set UTF-8 encoding for a PHP file

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