How to catch multi language's data in MSSQL and data isn't garbled

Question

Hi everyone, I'm Taiwanese PHP developer, sorry for my poor English.
I have 3 language's data:Simplified Chinese,Traditional Chinese, and English in our mssql2012 database.
If I want to use ADODB to catch data,The Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese will be garbled.
I try to use mb_convert_encoding($data,
'UTF-8','BIG-5'),
the Traditional Chinese is ok, but Simplified Chinese is still garbled.
Do anyone have suggestion?
This is my output:
Array
[0] => Array
[0] => ZHS2
[1] => ?体中文
[2] => 123
[1] => Array
[0] => ZHS3
[1] => 翻?
[2] => 123
[2] => Array
[0] => ZHS
[1] => ?体中文
[2] => Chinese Simplified
[3] => Array
[0] => ZHT
[1] => 繁體中文
[2] => Chinese Traditional
[4] => Array
[0] => US
[1] => English
[2] => English US
Here is my code:
<?php
include('adodb5/adodb.inc.php');
function encoding_data($results){
foreach($results as $key1 => $result){
foreach ($result as $key2 => $arr_str){
if(is_integer($key2)){
//unset($results[$key1][$key2]);
//echo $key2."=>".$arr_str."<p />";
}else{
//echo $key2."=>".$arr_str."<p />";
$results[$key1][$key2] = mb_convert_encoding($arr_str, 'UTF-8','BIG-5');
$results[$key1][$key2] = mb_convert_encoding($arr_str, 'UTF-8', 'BIG-5');
return $results;
$sql = $_REQUEST['sql'];
$usedb = $_REQUEST['usedb'];
if($sql==""){
$sql = "select * from HCP";
if($usedb == ""){
$usedb ="oci8";
if($usedb == "mssql"){
$hostname = "Driver={SQL Server};Server=XXXX,XXXX;Database=XXXX;CharacterSet=UTF-8;UID=XXXX;PWD=XXXX";
//$port = XXXX;
$dbname = "XXXX";
$username = "XXXX";
$pw = "XXXX";
$mssqlconn = &ADONewConnection ('odbc_mssql');
//define connection string, specify database driver
$mssqlconn->Connect($hostname, $username, $pw , $dbname);
$mssqlconn->debug = false;
$results = $mssqlconn->GetArray($sql);
$results = encoding_data($results);
echo "<pre>",print_r($results),"</pre>";
print_r($usedb);
?>

Answer 1

Hi Yun Chen,
Not knowledgable on PHP programing, but as far as I know The BIG-5 is specific for traditional Chinese, so that's why you got garbled character for simplified Chinese.
As the Chinese character encoding wiki says, there're newer standards such as
GB18030 and
Unicode which have separate code points for both simplified and traditional characters. I believe this may be a good starting for you to make the conversion work.
Regarding your description, this is not some specific question on SQL Server. I would suggest you post your question on a dedicated PHP forum. It is more appropriate and more experts will help you.
If you have any question, feel free to let me know.
Eric Zhang
TechNet Community Support