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I've tried converting the text to or from utf8, which didn't seem to help.
I'm getting:
"It’s Getting the Best of Me"
It should be:
"It’s Getting the Best of Me"
I'm getting this data from this url.
To convert to HTML entities:
<?php
echo mb_convert_encoding(
file_get_contents('http://www.tvrage.com/quickinfo.php?show=Surviver&ep=20x02&exact=0'),
"HTML-ENTITIES",
"UTF-8"
);
?>
See docs for mb_convert_encoding for more encoding options.
Make sure your html header specifies utf8
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
That usually does the trick for me (obviously if the content IS utf8).
You don't need to convert to html entities if you set the content-type.
Your content is fine; the problem is with the headers the server is sending:
Connection:Keep-Alive
Content-Length:502
Content-Type:text/html
Date:Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:45:32 GMT
Keep-Alive:timeout=1, max=25
Server:Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.7 with Suhosin-Patch
X-Powered-By:PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.7
Content-Type should be set to Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8, because this page is not HTML and uses the utf-8 encoding. Chromium on Mac guesses ISO-8859-1 and displays the characters you're describing.
If you are not in control of the site, specify the encoding as UTF-8 to whatever function you use to retrieve the content. I'm not familiar enough with PHP to know how exactly.
I know the question was answered but setting meta tag didn't help in my case and selected answer was not clear enough, so I wanted to provide simpler answer.
So to keep it simple, store string into a variable and process that like this
$TVrageGiberish = "It’s Getting the Best of Me";
$notGiberish = mb_convert_encoding($TVrageGiberish, "HTML-ENTITIES", 'UTF-8');
echo $notGiberish;
Which should return what you wanted It’s Getting the Best of Me
If you are parsing something, you can perform conversion while assigning values to a variable like this, where $TVrage is array with all the values, XML in this example from a feed that has tag "Title" which may contain special characters such as ‘ or ’.
$cleanedTitle = mb_convert_encoding($TVrage->title, "HTML-ENTITIES", 'UTF-8');
If you're here because you're experiencing issues with junk characters in your WordPress site, try this:
Open wp-config.php
Comment out define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8') and define('DB_COLLATE', '')
/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
//define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
/** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */
//define('DB_COLLATE', '');
It sounds like you're using standard string functions on a UTF8 characters (’) that doesn't exist in ISO 8859-1. Check that you are using Unicode compatible PHP settings and functions. See also the multibyte string functions.
We had success going the other direction using this:
mb_convert_encoding($text, "HTML-ENTITIES", "ISO-8859-1");
Just try this
if $text contains strange charaters do this:
$mytext = mb_convert_encoding($text, "HTML-ENTITIES", 'UTF-8');
and you are done..
if all seems not to work, this could be your best solution.
<?php
$content="It’s Getting the Best of Me";
$content = str_replace("’", "'", $content);
echo $content;
?>
==or==
<?php
$content="It’s Getting the Best of Me";
$content = str_replace("’", "'", $content);
echo $content;
?>
try this :
html_entity_decode(mb_convert_encoding(stripslashes($text), "HTML-ENTITIES", 'UTF-8'))
For fopen and file_put_contents, this will work:
str_replace("’", "'", htmlspecialchars_decode(mb_convert_encoding($string_to_be_fixed, "HTML-ENTITIES", "UTF-8")));
You Should check encode encoding origin then try to convert to correct encode type.
In my case, I read csv files then import to db. Some files displays well some not. I check encoding and see that file with encoding ASCII displays well, other file with UTF-8 is broken. So I use following code to convert encoding:
if(mb_detect_encoding($content) == 'UTF-8') {
$content = iconv("UTF-8", "ASCII//TRANSLIT", $content);
file_put_contents($file_path, $content);
} else {
$content = mb_convert_encoding($content, 'UTF-8', 'UTF-8');
file_put_contents($file_path, $content);
}
After convert I push the content to file then process import to DB, now it displays well in front-end
If none of the above solutions work:
In my case I noticed that the single quote was a different style of single quote. Instead of ' my data had a ’. Notice the difference in the single quote? So I simply wrote a str_replace to replace it and it fixed the problem. Probably not the most elegant solution but it got the job done.
$string= str_replace("’","'",$string);
I looked at the link, and it looks like UTF-8 to me. i.e., in Firefox, if you pick View, Character Encoding, UTF-8, it will appear correctly.
So, you just need to figure out how to get your PHP code to process that as UTF-8. Good luck!
use this
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf8_unicode_ci" />
instead of this
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
If nothing works try this mb_convert_encoding($elem->textContent, 'UTF-8', 'utf8mb4');
there are a lot of topics about diacritics/accents in PHP but none of them solved my problem.
I have this code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="sk">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
</head>
<body>
<?php
$items = scandir("test/");
echo $items[3];
?>
</body>
</html>
$items[3] is ľšá.png but it displays: ğšá.png
I tried:
foreach(mb_list_encodings() as $chr){
echo mb_convert_encoding($items[3], 'UTF-8', $chr) ." : ".$chr."<br>";
}
But none of them is right for me.
I also tried to put this before scandir():
mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');
mb_http_output('UTF-8');
ini_set('default_charset', 'utf-8');
But no change.
It is very strange because my website have always been working before I saw the issue (today) and I did not affect any code.
You tried to convert from 1-byte encodings to UTF-8 (double-byte), but that wrong file name that you see has double characters in it, so its already UTF-8!
You need to convert it from UTF-8, and for me it worked like this:
mb_convert_encoding($items[3], "ISO-8859-15", 'UTF-8'); // its to ISO from UTF-8
Personally I use iconv
echo iconv("UTF-8","ISO-8859-15",$items[3]); // its from UTF-8 to ISO
but i think its no big difference if either of them actually works.
Also I suggest you to check file names on your webserver if they accidentally has been converted when uploaded.
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/
I try to make a pdf file which has some japanese character. However, the output file is some strange character. I use mbfpdf instead of fpdf.
<?php
define('FPDF_FONTPATH','fpdf/font/');
require('fpdf/mbfpdf.php');
$pdf=& new MBFPDF('P','mm','A4');
$pdf->AddMBFont(GOTHIC ,'EUC-JP');
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->SetFont(GOTHIC,'',20);
$pdf->Write(20,'日本語');
$pdf->Output('test.pdf');
?>
You can convert to ISO-8859-1 with utf8_decode() (some inaccuracy):
$str = utf8_decode($str);
or if iconv extension is available (preferred):
$str = iconv('UTF-8', 'windows-1252', $str);
Add the below line inside the head tags
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
If you are getting garbage texts after executing mysql queries, execute both the below queries first.
SET NAMES utf8
SET CHARACTER SET utf8
I've tried converting the text to or from utf8, which didn't seem to help.
I'm getting:
"It’s Getting the Best of Me"
It should be:
"It’s Getting the Best of Me"
I'm getting this data from this url.
To convert to HTML entities:
<?php
echo mb_convert_encoding(
file_get_contents('http://www.tvrage.com/quickinfo.php?show=Surviver&ep=20x02&exact=0'),
"HTML-ENTITIES",
"UTF-8"
);
?>
See docs for mb_convert_encoding for more encoding options.
Make sure your html header specifies utf8
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
That usually does the trick for me (obviously if the content IS utf8).
You don't need to convert to html entities if you set the content-type.
Your content is fine; the problem is with the headers the server is sending:
Connection:Keep-Alive
Content-Length:502
Content-Type:text/html
Date:Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:45:32 GMT
Keep-Alive:timeout=1, max=25
Server:Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.7 with Suhosin-Patch
X-Powered-By:PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.7
Content-Type should be set to Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8, because this page is not HTML and uses the utf-8 encoding. Chromium on Mac guesses ISO-8859-1 and displays the characters you're describing.
If you are not in control of the site, specify the encoding as UTF-8 to whatever function you use to retrieve the content. I'm not familiar enough with PHP to know how exactly.
I know the question was answered but setting meta tag didn't help in my case and selected answer was not clear enough, so I wanted to provide simpler answer.
So to keep it simple, store string into a variable and process that like this
$TVrageGiberish = "It’s Getting the Best of Me";
$notGiberish = mb_convert_encoding($TVrageGiberish, "HTML-ENTITIES", 'UTF-8');
echo $notGiberish;
Which should return what you wanted It’s Getting the Best of Me
If you are parsing something, you can perform conversion while assigning values to a variable like this, where $TVrage is array with all the values, XML in this example from a feed that has tag "Title" which may contain special characters such as ‘ or ’.
$cleanedTitle = mb_convert_encoding($TVrage->title, "HTML-ENTITIES", 'UTF-8');
If you're here because you're experiencing issues with junk characters in your WordPress site, try this:
Open wp-config.php
Comment out define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8') and define('DB_COLLATE', '')
/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
//define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
/** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */
//define('DB_COLLATE', '');
It sounds like you're using standard string functions on a UTF8 characters (’) that doesn't exist in ISO 8859-1. Check that you are using Unicode compatible PHP settings and functions. See also the multibyte string functions.
We had success going the other direction using this:
mb_convert_encoding($text, "HTML-ENTITIES", "ISO-8859-1");
Just try this
if $text contains strange charaters do this:
$mytext = mb_convert_encoding($text, "HTML-ENTITIES", 'UTF-8');
and you are done..
if all seems not to work, this could be your best solution.
<?php
$content="It’s Getting the Best of Me";
$content = str_replace("’", "'", $content);
echo $content;
?>
==or==
<?php
$content="It’s Getting the Best of Me";
$content = str_replace("’", "'", $content);
echo $content;
?>
try this :
html_entity_decode(mb_convert_encoding(stripslashes($text), "HTML-ENTITIES", 'UTF-8'))
For fopen and file_put_contents, this will work:
str_replace("’", "'", htmlspecialchars_decode(mb_convert_encoding($string_to_be_fixed, "HTML-ENTITIES", "UTF-8")));
You Should check encode encoding origin then try to convert to correct encode type.
In my case, I read csv files then import to db. Some files displays well some not. I check encoding and see that file with encoding ASCII displays well, other file with UTF-8 is broken. So I use following code to convert encoding:
if(mb_detect_encoding($content) == 'UTF-8') {
$content = iconv("UTF-8", "ASCII//TRANSLIT", $content);
file_put_contents($file_path, $content);
} else {
$content = mb_convert_encoding($content, 'UTF-8', 'UTF-8');
file_put_contents($file_path, $content);
}
After convert I push the content to file then process import to DB, now it displays well in front-end
If none of the above solutions work:
In my case I noticed that the single quote was a different style of single quote. Instead of ' my data had a ’. Notice the difference in the single quote? So I simply wrote a str_replace to replace it and it fixed the problem. Probably not the most elegant solution but it got the job done.
$string= str_replace("’","'",$string);
I looked at the link, and it looks like UTF-8 to me. i.e., in Firefox, if you pick View, Character Encoding, UTF-8, it will appear correctly.
So, you just need to figure out how to get your PHP code to process that as UTF-8. Good luck!
use this
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf8_unicode_ci" />
instead of this
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
If nothing works try this mb_convert_encoding($elem->textContent, 'UTF-8', 'utf8mb4');