Topic: Encoding problem when apache started as services

[SorcererA]

Hello!

I have installed and used apache as usual at company like home.
However, I have encountered a werid problem at office computer.

Problem Descriptions:
I have created a function to read CSV file using fgetCSV() function (I have tried both fgetcsv() and splfileobj method, both produce same result)
(it is a news system, with date and news field)

If I run apache server with service installed
eg. http://localhost/test1.php, the first character of the line consists of unicode will become ?? character.

If I run apache server by manually starting the batch file.
It does not produce the problem.

This problem appear in my office computer which is clean installed not long ago.
System descriptions:
Windows XP SP3 English version

I have tried:
1. Test it at home. It does not produce the same result.
2. Put the scripts to the server, works too.
3. Reinstall the apache with different version including apache 2, 2.2.14 and PHP 5.2 and 5.3 separately.

I would like to know what is the difference between starting it from the batch file and starting automatically in services?
This may help in identifying the problem source.

I found this problem at first by using XAMPP, but I have tested to install the apache and php separately and can confirm that this is not the problem of XAMPP. Here are the screenshots. The result is same without XAMPP.

[James Blond]

I'm not realy sure what this error cause. But to prevent such things you can

a) send a UTF-8 header