Re: Quickform & Foreign Text

Alexey Borzov wrote: > Either > 1) Use Unicode instead of HTML entities > or > 2) Create a custom version of textarea that won't encode characters Are you referring to utf8_encode and utf8_decode? I tried using those and they did change my text, but they turned into either question marks or an unreadable mess. I also tried applying filters to the default values like this: // Set defaults for the form elements $form->setDefaults(array('textareaExample' => $DESC), utf8_encode); but no luck. Am i using unicode incorrectly? I also tried to take Justin's advice and insert the Korean text into my database manually but it is still turned into html entities. Can you tell what I am doing wrong? Also, if you created a custom textarea would you still be able to validate using Quickform? Thanks! Eric