title: SQL Server and Returning '???' Chinese in PHP
body: <p>I am running SQL Server 2008R2 and have a table.column with a mix of latin and Chinese characters. Here is an example; <strong>'Admissions Department - 招生办'</strong> the data type is set to 'nvarchar' (I've also tried ntext with no luck). 
  Running PHP 5.4, I can't seem to get the text to display correctly. <br /> Here is my SQL statement:</p>
  
  <pre><code>SELECT dbo.R_visitor_signin_departments.id,
  dbo.R_visitor_signin_departments.department_name,
  dbo.R_visitor_signin_departments.employee_id,
  dbo.R_visitor_signin_departments.campus_id
  FROM dbo.R_visitor_signin_departments
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I run the query and echo 'department_name' I get: <strong>Admissions Department - ???</strong>
  <br />
  My collation is set to Latin1_General_CI_AS. </p>