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Character set woes

Answer 1

+1 A:

There's a couple of things to be done here, and I'm not sure I understand your problem correctly, but if I do, I think most of it can be addressed with the PHP functions utf8_encode and utf8_decode:

utf8_encode
- Encodes an ISO-8859-1 string to UTF-8
utf8_decode
- This function decodes data , assumed to be UTF-8 encoded, to ISO-8859-1.

Also, look into htmlentities if needed.

Dave 2009-01-15 14:59:00

Can you check if I am using htmlentities in the correct way?

Joshxtothe4 2009-01-15 15:19:03

Hi Josh, I don't think you are. You wanna use htmlentities or utf8_encode on the **$rows[] = $row;** line, but modified a bit so you can use it field per field. Or don't use it in that function, but once you're ready to display it.

Dave 2009-01-15 17:33:48

Hi Dave, do you mean something like htmlentities($rows[] = $row); ?

Joshxtothe4 2009-01-16 10:19:18

Hi Josh, what I meant was that in the line $rows[] = $row, the $row variable itself is an array, so you'd have to do something like: $out = new array(); foreach($row as $k => $v) { $out[$k] = htmlentities($v); } $rows[] = $out;

Dave 2009-01-16 12:02:16

Answer 2

A:

If you use utf-8 throughout the application (Which I would recommend), you don't need utf8_encode/decode functions. Have you checked which encoding your page is served in? Probably the server is configured to send iso-8859-1 as charset, while your test environment sends utf-8. Set the encoding with a Content-Type header:

header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8");

troelskn 2009-01-15 22:41:29

The pages that produce the symbols are part of a bigger ajax application, not the main page. Setting the header for a "grabber" page does not solve anything.

Joshxtothe4 2009-01-16 10:28:58

You need to make sure that you send the proper header from all your pages -- including those that you reach via xhr.

troelskn 2009-01-16 16:27:23

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