PHP Currency/Escape Symbols

[n2o666]

We have just moved our system from Windows 2k Server to Windows 2300 server. When reading from a database any £ signs entered are being shown as a Ú and euro signs as a Æ. Does anyone know what is causing this?

TIA

Mark

 

[Olavxxx]

I think that it will be fine, if you define your document as UTF-8.

If not, you can use this, which I found on php.net:

m227 at poczta dot onet dot pl
26-May-2004 12:00
// tested with PHP 4.3.4, Apache 1.29
// function works like original htmlentities
// but preserves Polish characters encoded in CP-1250
// (Windows code page) from false conversion

// m227@poczta.onet.pl, 2004

function htmlentities1250($str)
{
// four chars does not need any conversion
// s` (9c), z` (9f), Z` (8f), S` (8c)
$trans = array(
"³" => "\xb3", // "l-"
"¹" => "\xb9", // "a,"
"ê" => "\xea", // "e,"
"æ" => "\xe6", // "c`"
"ñ"=> "\xf1", // "n`"
"¿"=> "\xbf", // "z."
"¥" => "\xa5", // "A,"
"Æ" => "\xc6", // "C`"
"¯" => "\xaf", // "Z."
"Ê" => "\xca", // "E,"
"ó"=> "\xf3", // "o`"
"Ó"=> "\xd3", // "O`"
"£" => "\xa3", // "L-"
"Ñ"=> "\xd1" // "N`"
);
return strtr(htmlentities($str), $trans);
}

ps. I did not test it, but it looks ok.

ref.:

http://no2.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php

Olav Alexander Mjelde

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