Re: Character Sets and Encoding in Web Applications

2008-09-14 Thread Rob Dixon
Nigel Peck wrote: > > Thanks for this. How can I find out a string's encoding? Just as in spoken languages there are ways to guess a string's encoding, but you really need to know the language / encoding used before you can process it properly. Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Character Sets and Encoding in Web Applications

2008-09-14 Thread John W. Krahn
Nigel Peck wrote: Dr.Ruud wrote: Nigel Peck schreef: I have a web application that gathers various data. When users enter pound signs (english money not #) a number of strange characters get stored in the database: Here's a copy and paste: £6.50 per hour That is UTF8 encoded text. Y

Re: Character Sets and Encoding in Web Applications

2008-09-14 Thread Nigel Peck
Dr.Ruud wrote: Nigel Peck schreef: I have a web application that gathers various data. When users enter pound signs (english money not #) a number of strange characters get stored in the database: Here's a copy and paste: £6.50 per hour That is UTF8 encoded text. You can use Enco

Re: Character Sets and Encoding in Web Applications

2008-09-13 Thread Dr.Ruud
Nigel Peck schreef: > I have a web application that gathers various data. When users enter > pound signs (english money not #) a number of strange characters get > stored in the database: > > Here's a copy and paste: > > £6.50 per hour That is UTF8 encoded text. You can use Encode::dec

Character Sets and Encoding in Web Applications

2008-09-12 Thread Nigel Peck
I have a web application that gathers various data. When users enter pound signs (english money not #) a number of strange characters get stored in the database: Here's a copy and paste: £6.50 per hour Now I'm 99% sure this will be because I am not handling the character sets and enc