Cannot get the correct utf-8 text from Access

Question

When I tried to get chinese characters from the database, I got weird text. I tried almost everything, like html_entity_decode, htmlentities, save the

Answer 1

I encountered this issue a while ago and the only way I could get it to work was to write the HTML into an ADODB.Stream object, save it to a file, and then echo the file:

Type = 2;  // adTypeText
$stm->Charset = 'utf-8';
$stm->Open();
$stm->WriteText('');
$stm->WriteText('');
$stm->WriteText('');
$stm->WriteText('');
$stm->WriteText('');
$stm->WriteText('');

$con = new COM("ADODB.Connection"); 
$con->Open(
        "Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb)};" .
        "Dbq=C:\\Users\\Public\\Database1.accdb");
$rst = $con->Execute("SELECT word FROM vocab WHERE ID=3");
$stm->WriteText($rst->Fields("word"));
$rst->Close();
$con->Close();

$stm->WriteText('');
$stm->WriteText('');

$tempFile = TEMP_FOLDER . uniqid("", TRUE) . ".txt";
$stm->SaveToFile($tempFile, 2);  // adSaveCreateOverWrite
$stm->Close();
echo file_get_contents($tempFile);
unlink($tempFile);
?>