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I am trying to extract chinese words off a website. I am using simple cURL code: $curl = curl_init($url); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); $response = curl_exec($curl); echo $response; Expected result for one of words is 网络频率 However I get this: ÍøÂçƵÂÊ Also if I url encode word result is different. I am having problems with encoding lately. Chinese chars are UTF8 or what? Could anyone help me chars would show "normal" with echo and if I url encode them result will be same as if I copy them off website. Cheers Chinese is usually UTF-8, yes. The problem you're having is

I am working on this code which receives a cpprest sdk response containing a base64_encoded payload which is a json. here is my code snippet: typedef std::wstring string_t; //defined in basic_types.h in cpprest lib void demo() { http_response response; //code to handle respose ... json::value output= response.extract_json(); string_t payload = output.at(L"payload").as_string(); vector<unsigned char> base64_encoded_payload = conversions::from_base64(payload); std::string utf8_payload(base64_encoded_payload.begin(), base64_encoded_payload.end()); //in debugger I see the Japanese chars are