Re: URL data decoding problem
| From: | Ashley Sheridan | Date: | Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:52:26 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: URL data decoding problem | ||
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On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 08:39 +0200, Anders Norrbring wrote:
> I'm working on a PayPal IPN module, and PayPal returns a lot of data in a
> GET call.
> The problem is that international characters entered by a user on the PayPal
> site gets encoded really weird, and I don't see an obvious way to decode
> them, can someone please assist?
> My website is running utf-8 all over.
>
> The URL contains this variable: &memo=Pr%EF%BF%BDvar
> It should translate into &memo=Prövar
>
> I've run out of ideas on this really.. PayPal say the reply is encoded in
> "windows-1252".
>
> Thanks,
> Anders.
>
>
You can use urldecode() to decode the %xx characters to their actual
character.
Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk