Re: Converting strings to match multiple charsets

"Red Wingate" <redeye@erisx.de> wrote in message news:20040630181828.24201.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > [...] > > Can't you use utf8_decode() to display the utf8 encoded data? > [...] > > The displayed data worked out fine for some languages but others didn't > and even simple german chars like äöü won't show up correctly within > a textarea. Hi Red, I'm actually working on a project as well at the moment that uses utf8 data in MySQL. All chars should be OK when output with utf8_decode(). Do the chars only look wrong within textarea or also outside of form elements? > > [...] > > Is this what you're looking for?: > > > > http://de2.php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php > [...] > > [quote](PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5)[/quote] > > This won't work on most servers we're hosting our CMS on .... :-/ Too bad. Torsten