Hi
That looks like UTF-8 encoding and I think you will need the iconv
extension installed to convert it easily.
Tom
At 12:56 PM 18/05/2002, darcy w.christ wrote:
>hi,
>
> i'm in a bit of a bind and i'm hoping someone can help me. i'm working
> on a project in which some data was saved into a postgresql database. It
> was copied from quark express and entered through a php
> interface. Unfortunately some of the records have a strange character
> encoding. For example, apostrophes were converted to %u2019. All the
> charactes seenm to begin with %u and have 4 numbers after that. i've
> seen this kind of thing in word documents. i don't know what it is, but
> i think it's the extended ascii character set. Anyway, i'm not sure what
> to do about it. i would like to find a way to convert this to simple
> ascii permanently or else find a way for it to display correctly in html
> and i'm hoping to do this in php. i would also like to find a way to
> prevent this from creeping into the system. i'm sorry i don't understand
> the problem well enough, and i'm sorry if i'm using the wrong words to
> describe this problem. Anyway i really appreciate the help.
>
>
>~darcy w. christ
>1000camels in a courtyard
>
>
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