Question: Hello i have german client and i am getting string with german alphabet which i am trying to display properly in output.I tried utf8\_encode to convert string but not working for me.

Code:

```
    echo "Desc Short=>". utf8_encode($obj->Desc_Short) . "<br>\r\n";
    echo "Desc Long=>". utf8_encode($obj->Desc_Long) . "<br>\r\n";

```

Output:

```
Desc Short=>Ablagefach mittig in GepÃ¤ckraumtrennwand;ESACO_UG(122)
Desc Long=>Ablagefach mittig in GepÃ¤ckraumtrennwand inkl. verschiebbarem Haltenetz

```

Answer: 
Your output indicates that the string is already utf-8 encoded. 

Either you would have to use utf8\_decode() to get the umlaut or - better - change any component in your application to properly handle utf-8. :)
parse the string through utf8\_decode function
TRY :

> 
> utf8\_decode($obj->Desc\_Short)   
> 
>  utf8\_decode($obj->Desc\_Long) 
> 
> 
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