Re: French characters

"Phpster" <phpster@gmail.com> wrote in message news:587E29A7-9904-45F2-BEB3-B818ED0CAE25@gmail.com... On Oct 19, 2009, at 9:29 AM, "Don" <don@program-it.ca> wrote: > This doesn't not seem to be having an affect as the French characters are > still written scrambled. > > "Mert Oztekin" <moztekin@anadolusigorta.com.tr> wrote in message > news:E2C046087E10D943811A0BD0A4E8316D1BD2E81C11@ > ankara.anadolusigorta.pvt... > You may use UTF-8 both in your code and database. It is used more > commonly. > (almost seems to become a encoding standart) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Don [mailto:don@program-it.ca] > Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 4:08 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] French characters > > I am using the following code: > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" > > /> > > > "Mert Oztekin" <moztekin@anadolusigorta.com.tr> wrote in message > news:E2C046087E10D943811A0BD0A4E8316D1BD2E81C0E@ > ankara.anadolusigorta.pvt... > What about browsers encoding? And also, does your html code has a header > about character-encoding in french > > -----Original Message----- > From: Don [mailto:don@program-it.ca] > Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 3:58 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] French characters > > Hi, > > I use PHP to read data form a mysql 5 table. allow the user to edit the > data > and then update the table. I am having trouble with French characters. > > Before the update: Pas de description détaillée > After the update: Pas de description détaillée > > When I read from the table I wrap the data in the following: > // Stripslashes > if (!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) { > $value = stripslashes($value); > } > // Convert all applicable characters to HTML entities > $value = htmlentities($value,ENT_COMPAT); > > When I update to the table, I wrap in the following: > // Addslashes > if (!(get_magic_quotes_gpc())) { > $value = addslashes($value); > } > // Quote if not a number or a numeric string > if (!is_numeric($value)) { > $value = @mysql_real_escape_string($value); > } > > I've tried playing with character sets to no avail. There mst be a > solution, > > Thanks > Don > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > ________________________________ > Bu mesaj ve ekleri, mesajda gönderildiði belirtilen kiþi/kiþilere özeldir > ve > gizlidir. Size yanlýþlýkla ulaþmýþsa lütfen gönderen kisiyi > bilgilendiriniz > ve mesajý sisteminizden siliniz. Mesaj ve eklerinin içeriði ile ilgili > olarak þirketimizin herhangi bir hukuki sorumluluðu bulunmamaktadý r. > Þirketimiz mesajýn ve bilgilerinin size deðiþikliðe uðrayarak veya geç > ulaþmasýndan, bütünlüðünün ve gizliliðinin korunamamasýndan, virüs > içermesinden ve bilgisayar sisteminize verebileceði herhangi bir zar ardan > sorumlu tutulamaz. > > This message and attachments are confidential and intended for the > individual(s) stated in this message. If you received this message in > error, > please immediately notify the sender and delete it from your system. Our > company has no legal responsibility for the contents of the message and > its > attachments. Our company shall have no liability for any changes or late > receiving, loss of integrity and confidentiality, viruses and any damages > caused in anyway to your computer system. > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > ________________________________ > Bu mesaj ve ekleri, mesajda gönderildigi belirtilen kisi/kisilere öz eldir > ve > gizlidir. Size yanlislikla ulasmissa lütfen gönderen kisiyi bilgilen > diriniz > ve mesaji sisteminizden siliniz. Mesaj ve eklerinin içerigi ile ilgi li > olarak sirketimizin herhangi bir hukuki sorumlulugu bulunmamaktadir. > Sirketimiz mesajin ve bilgilerinin size degisiklige ugrayarak veya g eç > ulasmasindan, bütünlügünün ve gizliliginin korunamamasindan, vir üs > içermesinden ve bilgisayar sisteminize verebilecegi herhangi bir zar ardan > sorumlu tutulamaz. > > This message and attachments are confidential and intended for the > individual(s) stated in this message. If you received this message in > error, > please immediately notify the sender and delete it from your system. Our > company has no legal responsibility for the contents of the message and > its > attachments. Our company shall have no liability for any changes or late > receiving, loss of integrity and confidentiality, viruses and any damages > caused in anyway to your computer system. > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > You've used htmlentities to encode the characters, try http://php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php to decode the string Tries it but no affect. Thanks anyways Bastien=