try to substitute the special characters http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp
for example substitute è with è bye 2010/8/8 Lennart K <[email protected]> > Hi again, > I tried the various suggestions kindly posted here, but it seems like > I still do something wrong or don't quite understand how to use these > character encodings. > So - I created a new set of abbreivations in the species name list, > where all abbreivations are without å,ä,ö. You may say that the > problem itself is not solved, but the maps are showing up as they > should and that's good enough. > Thanks anyway > Lennart > > On 6 Aug, 10:37, Federico Ulfo <[email protected]> wrote: > > use same encoding (utf8), for html,php and database and check that you > saved > > all your file in utf8, > http://www.jorgepablos.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/utf8.jpg > > > > if you do all right you could write in swedish without the need of > special > > chars &code; which I advice anyway to use > > > > That's all. > > > > If the problem persists, and you have no time to fix it, > > you can force the utf8 encoding with this php functions: > > utf8_encode and utf8_decodehttp:// > us2.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-encode.php > > > > 2010/8/6 William <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > On Aug 6, 10:44 am, Lennart K <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > PS to my last message: Now I know why some species with (å,ä,ö) > > > > works.In the database species names are all abbreivated and only 5 > > > > chars long. If the abbreivation is without Å,Ä,Ö it works and vice > > > > versa. > > > > > what is the character encoding on the database? Is it UTF-8 or > > > ISO-8859-1? > > > > > for VIGÅS, the URL will be something like ?art=VIG%C5S > > > > > if you use $_GET["art"] I think it will be urldecoded into ISO-8859-1 > > > in the php string variable, but if the database is utf-8, there won't > > > be a key match for the search? > > > > > ... > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to > > > [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<google-maps-js-api-v3%[email protected]> > <google-maps-js-api-v3%2b[email protected]> > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.- Dölj > citerad text - > > > > - Visa citerad text - > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-maps-js-api-v3%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
