PHP. Encoding problem. How to decide?

Question

PHP

The fact is that I need to extract the text from the .docx file and place it in the mysql database. When I try to do this, Russian characters are displayed incorrectly. Can you tell me how this can be fixed?

Answer 1

recode to display correctly

Answer 2

If the problem is not with the database encoding or PHP, then try copying through notepad.

Answer 3

mb-detect-encoding
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first determine which encoding, then bring it to the one you need and write it to the database