Drupal node_save and special characters.

Answer 1

This kind of looks like some sort of encoding/charset problem...

With Drupal, everything is encoded (and expected) in the UTF-8 charset.

Not sure it'll solve/fix your problem, but you should make sure that everything in your application is working with/in UTF-8 :

• Your PHP files, containing your source-code, should be in UTF-8
  • There is probably some setting about that in your IDE/editor
  • This will ensure that the strings you hard-code are in UTF-8 too
• When using some external data, before calling node_save on it, you must make sure it's in UTF-8
  • The utf8_encode function might help
  • Or maybe mb_convert_encoding, depending on the charset used by your input data.

I've run into exactly that problem of strings cut before accented characters a couple of times, and, each time, making sure the strings were passed as UTF-8 solved it -- so maybe it'll work for you too ^^