Invalid Chars in String

[Brianfree]

Hi, i have data in a table which i am accessing via php into a drop down list.

This works ok however some data like "CITROËN" is coming back as "CITRO½N" and i cant post it as a form value.

Hope this makes sense.

Any ideas?

many thanks

brian

 

[jpadie]

check the character encoding that your documents are using.

 

[Brianfree]

Cool!!

I have removed the following line..

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

However what should it be?

Many thanks.

Brian

 

[jpadie]

i probably was not clear enough. you need to make sure that all storage areas are aware of your character set. this includes your table/database, the html you are outputting AND the database connection itself. the database stuff can be administered from phpmyadmin

 

[sen5241b]

The real solution is PHP 6 with "real" Unicode support. Nay?

 

[DonQuichote]

No. The real solution is knowing what encodings are used and communicate that to all used subsystems. Sending a PHP6 unicode string after you have told the browser to expect iso-8859-1 still makes your site a mess.

In short: it is your responsibility as a programmer to manage the string encoding hat is used. No programming language can take that away from you.

+++ Despite being wrong in every important aspect, that is a very good analogy +++
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