I have the following text which I manually enter into the wordpress posts table
‚
I encode into utf-8 using:
$text = "‚";
$enc = mb_detect_encoding($text, "UTF-8,ISO-8859-1");
$hotelDescription = iconv($enc, "UTF-8", $text);
However, when wordpress echoes it it displays
‚
Any ideas who I can output the correct characters?
You need to specify that the page displaying that string render using UTF-8 encoding. The output you posted is the iso-8859-1 version of that utf-8 string. Assuming the data is being stored in the database correctly as UTF-8 ensure the page where this string is being rendered has the following meta tag:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
Looks like you're missing the & before #226;
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I collect a string from an HTML form, and pass it to an external SMS API that converts everything to UTF-8. I have a real hard time with random special characters displaying weird after the conversion. I have <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> set in the html header, I have tried accept-charset="UTF-8" in the form element and various other MBDETECT, ICONV functions with no luck. For Example:
$text = "¢";
$new = iconv(mb_detect_encoding($text, mb_detect_order(), true), "UTF-8", $text);
echo $new;
echo utf8_encode($new);
The cent sign always ends up looking like : ¢ after being re-encoded to UTF-8 by the extrenal api I use no matter what I try. This is just code I use for testing. If utf8_encode() echos out ¢ instead of ¢, my problem is solved. The result is fine in html, The problem is it is being sent via SMS so when they receive the text message, the symbol looks like ¢ instead of ¢
fm API to get event discription, venue name etc...
Now sometimes I get special chars back like: ' é à , but they show up scrabled.
So how can I display them properly? Also with the descrioption I get html-tags back, but I do want to keep these.
Can someone help me out fot those both cases? The language I'm using is php
Thanks in advance
specify encoding in the header:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
...
encode string when handling the input
$str=utf8_encode($str);
if you are displaying the input back as-is, no encoding is required;
however, if the value is the content of an input or textarea, escape the html characters
<?php echo htmlspecialchars($str); ?>
For Latin characters, use
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
in your section.
you need to be sure about two things, the meta header referring to which enconding you will be using, and the encoding you are using for the text served.
If you are using a utf8 header just be sure to convert the text served to utf8, refer to functions for encoding conversion like : mb_convert_encoding
I've got a problem with some specials characters in PHP. I have a table in mysql (utf8_hungarian_ci) that contains some text with special characters like á, á, Ó, Ö, ö, ü, and I would like to show this text on my page. I've tested:
$text = htmlentities($text); //to convert the simple spec chars
$search = array("& otilde;","&O tilde;","& ucirc;","&U circ;");
$replace = array("& #337;","& #336;","& #369;","& #368;");
$text = str_replace($search, $replace, $text);
echo $text;
But this code works only if $text isn't set from database. If I use this code and my $text is selected from database, it doesn't shows me any text, and if I only use:
echo $text; without htmlentities and replacements
I get characters like this one: �
I know there were some questions about this and I have tried accepted answers, but it still doesn't work, so please help me if you want and if you have time. Thank you anyway. A good day to you all!
Also try setting in your header to use UTF-8 encoding.
In your PHP file, add
header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
as well as specifying the encoding to be UTF-8 in your <meta> tag, to ensure that you told the browser. And see if it fixes the issue.
As well as including UTF-8 encoding in your meta tag.
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
...
</head>
Edit:
If you have access to Apache configuration, see if AddDefaultCharset is set to another encoding.
Try using mysql_set_charset() (mysqli_set_charset() if you're using MySQLi).
Try to put this in you html header:
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
(Also, you may need to save your file in "utf-8" file encoding)
.
Secondly, you could use this to try to tranlate-or-remove the disturbing char that always prints out in your case:
$str_out = #iconv("ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8//TRANSLIT//IGNORE", $str_in);
This is a slightly generic answer but please read up this article I wrote on common character-encoding pitfalls in the PHP/MySQL stack and if you still have problems let's try to work through them.
http://webmonkeyuk.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/how-to-avoid-character-encoding-problems-in-php/
My PHP script parses a web site and pulls out an HTML DIV that looks like this (and saves it as a string)
<div id="merchantinfo">The following merchants: Nautica®, Brookstone®, Teds® ©2012 Blabla</div>
I store this as $merchantList (string).
However, when I output the data to the webpage
echo $merchantList
The encoding gets messed up and displays as:
Nautica®, Brookstone®, Teds® ©2012 Blabla
I tried adding the following to the display page:
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
</head>
But that didn't do anything. --Thanks
EDIT:: ------------
For the question, the accepted answer is correct.
But I realized my actual issue was slightly different.
The initial parsing using DOMDocument::loadHTML had already mangled the UTF-8 encoding, causing the string to save as
<div id="merchantinfo">The following merchants: Nauticaî, Brookstoneî, Tedsî ©2012 Blabla</div>
This was solved by:
$html = mb_convert_encoding($html, 'HTML-ENTITIES', "UTF-8");
$dom->loadHTML($html);
Use:
ini_set('default_charset', 'UTF-8');
And do not use iso-8859-1. Use UTF-8.
From the mojibake you posted the input string is utf-8, not iso-8859-1.
You need just to Use htmlspecialchars_decode function , exemple :
$string = '"hello dude"';
$decodechars = htmlspecialchars_decode($string);
echo $decodechars; // output : "hello dude"
There is a MySQL database containing data with accentuated letters like é. I want to display it in my PHP page , but the problem is that there are unrecognized characters displayed because of the accent. So is there a function to convert accent to HTML code , for example é is converted to é !
Rather than using htmlentities you should use the unicode charset in your files, e.g.
<?php
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"');
To be on the safe side, you can add the following meta tag to your html files:
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
Then, make sure that your data base connection uses utf8:
mysql_connect(...);
mysql_select_database(...);
mysql_set_charset('utf-8');
Then, all browsers should display the special characters correctly.
The advantage is that you can easily use unicode characters everywhere in your php files - for example the copyright sign (©) or a dash (–) - given that your php files are encoded in utf-8, too.
Try htmlspecialchars() and/or htmlentities()
you can easily make one yourself with str_replace:
function txtFormat($input){
$output = str_replace('/\à/','É',$input);
$output = str_replace('/\è/','è',$output);
$output = str_replace('/\é/','é',$output);
$output = str_replace('/\ì/','ì',$output);
$output = str_replace('/\ò/','ò',$output);
$output = str_replace('/\ù/','ù',$output);
return $output;
}
Use the following code
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>
And don't encode your data via utf8_encode() function before inserting into database
hope this will solve your problem :)