Re: Quickform & Foreign Text

On 18 Nov 2004 13:05:33 -0000, PHPDiscuss - PHP Newsgroups and mailing lists <ericbusch@yahoo.com> wrote: > I am using HTML_Quickform to process a form that will use primarily > English but should be able to deal with Korean characters. The Korean > characters are INSERTed into my database as they should be, represented by > html entities(ex. & #50516;). > > The problem arises when a user goes to edit their submission and I have to > setDefaults to place what they have written into a <textarea>. Quickform > is turning all ampersands into (& amp;) Therefore the Korean text is > turned into unreadable html entities which look like this: (& amp#50516;). > > Is there a way I can make sure that HTML_Quickform does not convert the > ampersand that appears on Korean text into & amp;? > > Here is an example of the code i am experimenting on: > // Instantiate the QuickForm class > $form = new HTML_QuickForm('example', 'POST'); > > // textarea attributes > $attrs = array("rows"=>"10", "cols"=>"50"); > > // Translates to 2 korean characters with an apostrophe in the middle > $DESC = html_entity_decode ("& #50516; & #48317; & #39; & #46321; & > #48152;"); > > // Set defaults for the form elements > $form->setDefaults(array('textareaExample' => $DESC)); > > // The textarea field > $form->addElement('textarea','textareaExample','Text', > $attrs); > > Thanks in advance. I have been struggling with this problem for a few > days now. > I would suggest using unicode, as Alexey suggested. You may also be able to run html_entity_decode() on the string before you put it into the DB, but this also may require unicode. -- Justin Patrin