Re: urlencode and google search query

Joel CARNAT wrote:

On Wed, Oct 27 2004 - 23:41, Marek Kilimajer wrote:

how comes urlencode generates "%E9" and google generates "%C3%A9" ? is google using some specific encoding ? any tweak to encode "the google way" ?

you can specify your encoding to google using "ie" parameter. and output

hum... I don't get what you mean :( there is no parameter to the urlencode php function, isn't it ?

encoding with "oe". google usualy uses UTF-8, that's why some single characters are encoded in two bytes.

I tried : echo "<html><meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;url=http://www.google.fr/search?q=".utf8_encode($query)."\"></html>"; which acts the same, aka "%E9" and $query = utf8_encode($_POST["query"]); which is worse than ever :) it produces : %20t%C3%83%C6%92%C3%82%C2%A9 %-) can you clarify what you mean when you say "use the ie param" and "encoding with oe". sorry if those questions seems sily, but I'm not a heavy php coder ;)

I meant get parameters to google: http://www.google.com/search?q=help&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 you need to change ie parameter ----^^ to whatever encoding you are using.