Laravel localization to German and special letters
问题 I have a problem with some German's special letters (ö, ü...) in my Laravel application. My encoding is set to UTF-8. Everything works fine with the content from the database (where is utf8_general_ci ). When I hardcode some text to Blade view files, that's fine, too. But, I'm using localization files ( /app/lang/de/myFile.php ) with an associative array. German characters from that array are displayed as � � �. What is strange, when I var_dump(trans('myFile.key')) in Blade, special