I encountered the same issue than joe dot bowman at edigitalresearch.comEven if i read on the web that it is a usual issue when using PHP 5.6 and upper, i didn't encounter it on every sites on which i use PHP 5.6.Nevertheless, i had to find a solution because, when the issue appears, it's embarrassing. This is what i found thanks to Alexandra López on http://hasibul.info.Instead of :if (function_exists(‘iconv’)){// These are settings that can be set inside code iconv_set_encoding(“internal_encoding”, “UTF-8?); iconv_set_encoding(“input_encoding”, “UTF-8?); iconv_set_encoding(“output_encoding”, “UTF-8?);}i use :if (PHP_VERSION_ID < 50600) { iconv_set_encoding('input_encoding', 'UTF-8'); iconv_set_encoding('output_encoding', 'UTF-8'); iconv_set_encoding('internal_encoding', 'UTF-8');} else { ini_set('default_charset', 'UTF-8');}