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php strftime French characters
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'fra_fra');

strftime('%d %B %Y', strtotime($post->post_date));

<meta charset="utf-8">

$date_string = utf8_encode(strftime('%d %B %Y', strtotime($post->post_date)));

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');

<?php
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
//header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=ASCII');

$myDate = "Feb 23, 2011";

$locale = 'fr_FR.UTF-8';
setlocale(LC_ALL, $locale);
echo strftime('%d %B %Y', strtotime($myDate));

$locale = 'en_US.UTF-8';
setlocale(LC_ALL, $locale);
echo strftime('%d %B %Y', strtotime($myDate));
?>

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />