On Mar 31, 10:58 am, MaxCaro <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Maybe you know something about it.
> Thanks for your help, i am happy that somebody relpies at all :)
>
> Not a mainstream topic probably :)

UTF-8 encodes characters as sequences of other characters. UTF-8 has
an enormous range, and allows something like Ŧ (that's a barred
capital T) to be encoded as a sequence of characters whose ASCII
values are less than 255: in this case, a barred T is Å ¦  (Hex C5,
A6).

The problem comes when you use one of these characters on its own
rather than as a sequence. ß is not a valid UTF-8 sequence, it should
appear as ß (Hex C3, 9F).

So: use the php function utf8_encode() to convert your entered data
into UTF8, which you can then store in your database and manipulate.
If you make sure the browser page you create specifies an encoding of
UTF-8 you should be able to use the database data directly; otherwise
there's a php function utf8_decode() to convert the data from UTF-8 to
ISO-8859-1 (where ß is a valid single character).

Or: since your database already has unencoded data in it, encode it to
UTF8 on the way out.

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