Re: [PHP] Encoding help!
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 03:05, Brian Dunning wrote: I know this is a common question but I have RTFM and STFW until I'm blue in the face - I really need some help here. :) I've got some forms into which users are going to enter text that frequently contains funny characters (pilcrows, foreign text, etc). So I need to encode it before writing it into MySQL, and decode it when reading it back out and writing it to the page. I've tried base64_encode/base64_decode, rawurlencode/rawurldecode, utf8_encode/utf8_decode, combinations, and others. My MySQL table is set to use UTF8 and my web pages are all set to UTF8. Most of what I've tried takes: And when I read it from MySQL and output it to the web page, it's turned into: What is the default content-type of the webserver you use? What is the content-type you return to the user through your php scripts? I need some help here! Thanks. :) :) :) -- Cyberly yours, Petar Nedyalkov Devoted Orbitel Fan :-) PGP ID: 7AE45436 PGP Public Key: http://bu.orbitel.bg/pgp/bu.asc PGP Fingerprint: 7923 8D52 B145 02E8 6F63 8BDA 2D3F 7C0B 7AE4 5436 pgpvr6EmSkXr5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [PHP] Encoding help!
Petar Nedyalkov wrote: On Wednesday 20 April 2005 03:05, Brian Dunning wrote: I know this is a common question but I have RTFM and STFW until I'm blue in the face - I really need some help here. :) I've got some forms into which users are going to enter text that frequently contains funny characters (pilcrows, foreign text, etc). So I need to encode it before writing it into MySQL, and decode it when reading it back out and writing it to the page. I've tried base64_encode/base64_decode, rawurlencode/rawurldecode, utf8_encode/utf8_decode, combinations, and others. My MySQL table is set to use UTF8 and my web pages are all set to UTF8. Most of what I've if mySQL is setup for UTF8 I thought that you didn't need to encode the data...? assuming you have told the browser to send UTF8 (which you seem to have) and it does. tried takes: And when I read it from MySQL and output it to the web page, it's turned into: What is the default content-type of the webserver you use? What is the content-type you return to the user through your php scripts? I need some help here! Thanks. :) :) :) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Encoding help!
I know this is a common question but I have RTFM and STFW until I'm blue in the face - I really need some help here. :) I've got some forms into which users are going to enter text that frequently contains funny characters (pilcrows, foreign text, etc). So I need to encode it before writing it into MySQL, and decode it when reading it back out and writing it to the page. I've tried base64_encode/base64_decode, rawurlencode/rawurldecode, utf8_encode/utf8_decode, combinations, and others. My MySQL table is set to use UTF8 and my web pages are all set to UTF8. Most of what I've tried takes: And when I read it from MySQL and output it to the web page, it's turned into: I need some help here! Thanks. :) :) :) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
