[PHP] UTF-8/FormMail headaches
Hi all, I've got a problem with character encoding in combination with a FormMail-script (coded in PHP). Everything works fine as long as I stick to ISO-8859-1 as charset, but when I call the script from pages that use UTF-8 as encoding, special characters (e.g. those special chars with dots and circles above that we tend to use here in Sweden) end up garbled. The encoding is set with a meta-tag in case the document is in UTF-8, like so: meta http-equiv=content-type content=text/html; charset=UTF-8/ The server hasn't got any special charset configured, so it should deliver ISO-8859-1 (which is the default if I'm not mistaken) on those pages which haven't got that meta-tag. I can understand that the characters are garbled, using different charsets and all, but how can I make my FormMail-script to cope with both variants of encoding? I've played around with phpinfo() to see if the encoding is available in some environment variable, but I haven't find anything of interest. There's a function utf8_decode() in php that seems to work for converting the UTF-8 form data to ISO-8859-1 prior to sending the mail, problem is that it doesn't work all that well on data already in ISO-8859-1. I guess I need some way to determine what encoding the posted data is in? The content-type after the form has been posted to my FormMail-script always seems to be application/x-www-form-urlencoded no matter what I try. I've looked at the HTML-specs at www.w3.org and even tried to set the enctype to application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=ISO-8859-1 in an attempt to make the form-data use a different encoding than the rest of the page, but no success. I've also tried the accept-charset but I couldn't get that to work either. Anyone who has a clue on this? I guess I could alter the script somehow and add a new hidden field that indicate which encoding is used, and then decide whether to call utf8_decode() on the data, but I don't think that's a very nice solution. And changing all pages that uses FormMail is out of the question (well, almost anyway) since there's _alot_ of them. Regards, Peter -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] UTF-8/FormMail headaches
For detection of encoding, perhaps you could include a hidden field with some shibboleth characters. Research how they are transformed by various encodings, and then just look at them to figure out what for that the rest of the data is in. miguel On Wed, 22 May 2002, Peter Johansson wrote: I've got a problem with character encoding in combination with a FormMail-script (coded in PHP). Everything works fine as long as I stick to ISO-8859-1 as charset, but when I call the script from pages that use UTF-8 as encoding, special characters (e.g. those special chars with dots and circles above that we tend to use here in Sweden) end up garbled. The encoding is set with a meta-tag in case the document is in UTF-8, like so: meta http-equiv=content-type content=text/html; charset=UTF-8/ The server hasn't got any special charset configured, so it should deliver ISO-8859-1 (which is the default if I'm not mistaken) on those pages which haven't got that meta-tag. I can understand that the characters are garbled, using different charsets and all, but how can I make my FormMail-script to cope with both variants of encoding? I've played around with phpinfo() to see if the encoding is available in some environment variable, but I haven't find anything of interest. There's a function utf8_decode() in php that seems to work for converting the UTF-8 form data to ISO-8859-1 prior to sending the mail, problem is that it doesn't work all that well on data already in ISO-8859-1. I guess I need some way to determine what encoding the posted data is in? The content-type after the form has been posted to my FormMail-script always seems to be application/x-www-form-urlencoded no matter what I try. I've looked at the HTML-specs at www.w3.org and even tried to set the enctype to application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=ISO-8859-1 in an attempt to make the form-data use a different encoding than the rest of the page, but no success. I've also tried the accept-charset but I couldn't get that to work either. Anyone who has a clue on this? I guess I could alter the script somehow and add a new hidden field that indicate which encoding is used, and then decide whether to call utf8_decode() on the data, but I don't think that's a very nice solution. And changing all pages that uses FormMail is out of the question (well, almost anyway) since there's _alot_ of them. Regards, Peter -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] UTF-8/FormMail headaches
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Miguel Cruz wrote: For detection of encoding, perhaps you could include a hidden field with some shibboleth characters. Research how they are transformed by various encodings, and then just look at them to figure out what for that the rest of the data is in. Yes, that could probably work, but I'd still have to modify all those pages with forms and I'd rather not (they're not my own pages, but my customer's). I'm sure there must be something I've missed, something simple, something elegant? Regards, Peter -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
