[Dameon51]

Hi everyone. I'm trying to output some asian characters. They output fine, unless I do it from an output buffer.

The DB is UTF-8 and everyone else is set to UTF-8.

At the start of the script and right before the buffer I have the following...

mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');
mb_http_output('UTF-8');
mb_http_input('UTF-8');
mb_language('uni');
mb_regex_encoding('UTF-8');

ob_start("mb_output_handler"); 

Any idea's why my asian characters return fine except in the output buffer?

[requinix]

Since the mb buffer shouldn't be changing anything, is there a reason why you're using it in the first place? Why not just a normal buffer and simply

ob_start(); 

[Dameon51]

Thats what I had originally with no luck. I found mb mb_buffer stuff here...
http://allseeing-i.com/How-to-setup-your-PHP-site-to-use-UTF8

[requinix]

You don't actually need the output buffer part. Odds are you don't even need output buffering at all.

With or without ob_start() it should work. If not then there's a problem somewhere else.

[Dameon51]

I do need and output buffer because of the way our software works, but I figured it out.

I was doing a manual utf8_encode further down the pipe, and that was breaking the asian characters.