PHP curl hit special characters -

the api response displaying special characters instead of actual words (the actual words tamil language)

what header should add in this? please provide example.

getting special below:

கிழமை     

function

function get_data($url) {     $ch = curl_init();     $timeout = 5;     curl_setopt($ch, curlopt_url, $url);     curl_setopt($ch, curlopt_httpheader, $header);     curl_setopt($ch, curlopt_returntransfer, 1);     curl_setopt($ch, curlopt_connecttimeout, $timeout);     $data = curl_exec($ch);     curl_close($ch);     return $data; } 

you may need use tamil charset. check out following link:

http://www.iam.uni-bonn.de/~alt/html/unicode_25.html

use header this:

$headers = array("content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset: utf-8"); curl_setopt($ch, curlopt_httpheader, $headers); curl_setopt($ch, curlopt_header, 1);