Re: Encoding help!
| From: | Petar Nedyalkov | Date: | Wed, 20 Apr 2005 06:44:51 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Encoding help! | ||
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On Wednesday 20 April 2005 03:05, Brian Dunning wrote:
> 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:
>
> �©�
What is the default content-type of the webserver you use?
What is the content-type you return to the user through your php scripts?
>
> I need some help here! Thanks. :) :) :)
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