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Answer 1

+7 A:

You need to specify the encoding for the htmlentities function (here UTF-8):

$formdesc = htmlentities($_POST['formdesc'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');

Otherwise the default value ISO-8859-1 is used and the character é in your example encoded in UTF-8 as 0xC3A9 would be interpreted as two characters (Ã and ©).

But why do you use htmlentities anyway? If you just want to escape the HTML special characters like &, <, >, " and ' htmlspecialchars will suffice.

Gumbo 2009-06-30 07:23:47

it works!! duh, so simple... but thx! btw > why > it seemed safer that way, am i wrong?

Maurice Kroon 2009-06-30 07:31:55

You just need to replace additional character with character references if that characters cannot be encoded with the encoding you use. But as Unicode contains any known character and UTF-8 can encode it, you don’t need to replace any other characters than HTML’s special characters.

Gumbo 2009-06-30 07:45:29

Answer 2

+1 A:

have you tried looking at htmlspecialchars() and htmlspecialchars_decode()

Josh

Josh 2009-06-30 07:24:05

Maurice Kroon 2009-06-30 07:33:09

Answer 3

+1 A:

Seems like the usual PHP escaping functions do not work on utf-8 text. Maybe Handling UTF-8 in JavaScript, PHP, and Non-UTF8 Databases will help you. Another source about utf-8 and PHP is the PHP UTF-8 cheatsheet.

Yuval F 2009-06-30 07:25:52

thx for your comment but i've got it working now. i forgot the utf-8 tag yes, thx!

Maurice Kroon 2009-06-30 07:33:43

You are welcome. I see Gumbo's answer was exactly the right thing to make this work.

Yuval F 2009-06-30 07:37:37

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