[PHP] Re: Character Encoding Problem

[Lucian Cozma]

Try multibyte functions (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mbstring.php):
mb_decode_numericentity
mb_encode_numericentity
mb_convert_encoding

See below:
<?php
function n_to_c($str) {
 return mb_decode_numericentity($str, array(0x0, 0x2FFFF, 0, 0xFFFF),
'UTF-8');
}
function c_to_n($strt) {
  return mb_encode_numericentity($strt,  array(0x0, 0x2FFFF, 0, 0xFFFF),
'UTF-8');
}

echo n_to_c('&#8220;');
echo '<br/>';
echo c_to_n(n_to_c('&#8220;'));
?>

Hope it helps,
Lucian

"Roland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi
>
> I'm trying to encode text entered into an html form.  In dreamweaver,
> special characters seem to be encoded as &#8220; (a curly quote) for
> example, which I assume is utf-8.
>
> Here is my code snippet:
>
> htmlentities(html_entity_decode(strip_tags(stripslashes(trim($data)))),
> ENT_QUOTES), ENT_QUOTES, "utf-8")
>
> but this does not seem to return the encoded value.  I've tried all the
> character sets, but none of them seem to do anything apart from the
windows
> specific character set, which doesn't return the value I want.
>
> I've tried using html_entity_decode with uft-8, but it throws an error
> saying that the function doesn't support MBCS (Multibyte character
sets???)
>
> I've also tried using utf8_encode() before trying to html encode, but this
> doesn't work either.
>
> Any help gratefully appreciated
>
> Thanks In Advance
> Roland

-- 
PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)
To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php