note 85130 added to function.rawurlencode

I have to mention something about javier's post: the issue you are experiencing only happens because you are using ISO-8859-1 (a.k.a. ISO-LATIN-1) encoding, which is an extension of ASCII using the values 128-255 for latin specific characters (these characters are NOT part of ASCII). To say somethig like 0xF1 is the correct value for "ñ" in ASCII is wrong: any value equal or higher than 0x80 is invalid in ASCII; and there is no "correct" value for "ñ" in ASCII because the ASCII character set does not include that character. These encode/decode functions are designed to work on UTF-8, which is an ASCII-compatible encoding for Unicode, thus being able to represent the entire Unicode character range. The main point is: the "ñ" you get is the 0xC3 0xB1 sequence, interpreted as two single-byte ISO-8859-1 characters; but if you interpret them as UTF-8, they indeed represent "ñ". If you are working with the latin character set and encoding, then you are fine with your method (which is essentially a utf-8 => iso-latin-1 converter). For anybody who is using UTF-8 enconding, check if there is any issue before you use a method like javier's: these multi-byte values are actually the right way to represent any non-ASCII character on UTF-8. For deeper details on the UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 encodings, take a look at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO-8859-1 ---- Server IP: 193.95.141.37 Probable Submitter: 89.19.74.255 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.rawurlencode.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/85130 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85130/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85130/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85130/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85130/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85130/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85130/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85130 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/85130 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php