On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 13:58 -0500, Larry Garfield wrote:
> On Sunday 18 March 2007 5:57 am, Don Don wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > my program outputs some characters along with text from the database,
> > these texts contain chars like ‘ ’. How can i get rid of theses chars
> > and display their meaning instead ? I am thinking htmlspecialchars or html
> > entities will do the job will it ?
> >
> >
> > Cheers
>
> It sounds like you're running into character encoding issues. They suck. :-)
>
> See here for details:
>
> http://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/stupid-quotes
> http://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/more-on-stupid-quotes
> http://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/unicode-8-vs-16
I found the following to be quite informative:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
Cheers,
Rob.
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