Re: Preventing unwanted chars from outputting

On Sunday 18 March 2007 2:17 pm, Robert Cummings wrote: > On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 13:58 -0500, Larry Garfield wrote: > > On Sunday 18 March 2007 5:57 am, Don Don wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > my program outputs some characters along with text from the database, > > > these texts contain chars like ‘ ’. How can i get rid of theses > > > chars and display their meaning instead ? I am thinking > > > htmlspecialchars or html entities will do the job will it ? > > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > It sounds like you're running into character encoding issues. They suck. > > :-) See here for details: > > > > http://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/stupid-quotes > > http://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/more-on-stupid-quotes > > http://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/unicode-8-vs-16 > > I found the following to be quite informative: > > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html I do like Joel's style... :-) -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson