"Red Wingate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hey guys,
>
> i ran into serious trouble when facing the problem to convert
> data, which was retrieved from a single form in our CMS to match
> the requirements of multiple charsets.
>
> Our CMS uses UTF-8 which worked out quite fine to display the data
> but caused weired symbols when displayed within a TEXTAREA or INPUT
> field.
Can't you use utf8_decode() to display the utf8 encoded data?
> So i tried to convert all characters beyound A-Z,0-9 to
> HTML entities which worked out even better ( i used the following
> functions to convert the data :
>
> function func_ConvertToHTML ( $string ) {
> $strlen = strlen ( $string ) ;
> $return = '' ;
>
> for ( $str_pos = 0 ; $str_pos < $strlen ; $str_pos++ ) {
> $char = substr ( $string , $str_pos , 1 );
> $ascii = ord ( $char );
>
> if ( $ascii >> 5 == 6 ) {
> $char2 = substr ( $string , ++$str_pos , 1 );
> $ascii2 = ord ($char2);
>
> $ascii &= 31 ;
> $ascii2 &= 63 ;
> $ascii2 |= ( ($ascii & 3 ) << 6 ) ;
> $ascii >>= 2 ;
>
> $return .= '&#x' . str_pad ( dechex( $ascii ) , 2 , '0' ,
> STR_PAD_LEFT ) . str_pad ( dechex( $ascii2 ) , 2 , '0' , STR_PAD_LEFT )
> . ';' ;
> } else {
> $return .= $char;
> }
> }
>
> return $return;
> }
>
> But at this point i faced even bigger problems when using this kind
> of data on JavaScripts or sending the data in an text/plain E-Mail.
> I tryed to convert the data back but failed as chr() only supports
> a Charset of 255 Characters ( which most languages don't match eg
> ru, pl, ch, jp ... )
>
> So my question is if anyone on this list has an idea on how to retrieve
> the data completely? Some kind of func_ConvertFromHTML() function.
Is this what you're looking for?:
http://de2.php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php
Regards,
Torsten Roehr
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