I have a page being rendered from a database, but is seams the browser doesen't recognize some characters for some reason. Instead of a dash, quotes, or some other characters, the browser is printing a ? in it's place. I have figured out the characters are part of the extend ascii set like double open quotes. Is there any way to convert the entire string to prevent any problems?
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Strange display issue
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Hi,
I would recommend that you read up on this page:
There are some examples there, which you can find usefull.
Olav Alexander Mjelde
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I would recommend that you read up on this page:
There are some examples there, which you can find usefull.
Olav Alexander Mjelde
Admin & Webmaster
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yes?
The data is retrieved from database or from files?
Olav Alexander Mjelde
Admin & Webmaster
The data is retrieved from database or from files?
Olav Alexander Mjelde
Admin & Webmaster
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- #5
When you echo out the row, wrap it in the function to convert to htmlentities.
Did you try this?
please paste your attempt here.
Olav Alexander Mjelde
Admin & Webmaster
Did you try this?
please paste your attempt here.
Olav Alexander Mjelde
Admin & Webmaster
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Infortunately, the data is stored with the html in it... The information was originally obtained from html pages, converted, formated, and inserted into a database to eliminate the 7000+ pages, but they have paragraphs, links, etc in them... I already seen the issue with the double quotes, and I used str_repace for those.. but more keep popping up... I was hoping for an easier method...
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