In this case his problem likely stems from when the install was set up in 2007, 14 years ago. Back then having these charset mismatches in LAMP were super commo

In this case his problem likely stems from when the install was set up in 2007, 14 years ago. Back then having these charset mismatches in LAMP were super common These days the defaults tend to be slightly more sane. PHP is still messed up with the various mb_ string functions though.