Encoding help!
| From: | Brian Dunning | Date: | Wed, 20 Apr 2005 00:05:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Encoding help! | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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I know this is a common question but I have RTFM and STFW until I'm blue in the face - I really need some help here. :)
I've got some forms into which users are going to enter text that frequently contains funny characters (pilcrows, foreign text, etc). So I need to encode it before writing it into MySQL, and decode it when reading it back out and writing it to the page. I've tried base64_encode/base64_decode, rawurlencode/rawurldecode, utf8_encode/utf8_decode, combinations, and others. My MySQL table is set to use UTF8 and my web pages are all set to UTF8. Most of what I've tried takes:
™©ƒ
And when I read it from MySQL and output it to the web page, it's turned into:
�©�
I need some help here! Thanks. :) :) :)