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Im having trouble converting the html entites into html characters, (&# 8217;) i have tried using al the different php functions (html_entity_decode, htmlspecial characters etc...) None seem to be working, any ideas what function i need to use?
Thank you!
Your problem isn't that the characters are not decoded correctly, but that the browser is misinterpreting the decoded characters.
As the page is encoded using UTF-8, you need to specify that in the header:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
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I have a problem when extract arabic text from pdf.
I use PdfToText library
The text appears in this figure (ΎϬϧϟυϔΣϟΦϳέΎΗ ΏϟΎρϟϡϳΩϘΗΝΫϭϣϧ ΩϳϘϟϡϗέ)
How can i solve it ? i tried
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
but this did not solve my problem
English letters are part of basic ASCII char set so the output is usually without any problems however any other languages using various accents or even different letters, ie. Arabic, Azbuka, Greek, etc. uses letters out of the basic set.
Make sure all three sources are using same encoding:
all the PHP scripts generating the output
the HTML encoding meta tag
the output file as well
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Check your editor how it saves the PHP scripts to the file system. The way how to set it up differs from each editor
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Use HTML meta tag <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
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define the encoding to use UTF-8 for example: pdftotext -enc UTF-8 your.pdf. According to the documentation the PdfToText class generates UTF8-encoded text.
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 have a website where the web pages feed from the same database and I found that in two webpages that have same queries they interpretate the spanish special characters differently.
I cant really figure out what is wrong as I have stripped out the code which is interpreting the special spanish characters wrong and building it up from the scratch.
This one interpretes the characters well.
http://amragl.com/
This one interpretes the characters wrong.
http://amragl.com/menu.php
They both have the following
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
They both feed from the same database and use same queries.
Does anyone have any idea of how to fix this problem?
Thanks in advance.
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PEASE SEE THE WORD "GAZPACH" or "AL LIM" to see the difference.
You have both
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
in the same file.
I suggest only using the utf-8 one.
Change iso-8859-1 to utf-8, should fix it.
The menu.php page is rendering with windows-1252 encoding, even tho it has iso-8859-1 set.
Are the menu.php contents coming from a database? If yes, which encoding is the database using?
OK so I have a PHP file with several strings of text in various languages. For most languages like French or Spanish I just simply type in the characters.
The problem I have is with Russian language characters. The PHP file is encoded in UTF-8, how can I make sure that the Russian characters are both saved correctly and displayed correctly on the output web page... Is it just a case of pasting the text into the PHP file, or is there a way to guarantee the characters will be saved into the file correctly - perhaps converting it into HTML-like notation for example?
Obviously I am assuming the end user will have the correct encoding set in their web browser, I just want to make sure I got it all covered from my end.
I am using Notepad++ on Windows to edit my PHP file.
Thanks!
If you want to tell browsers your encoding, place it inside your <header> tag:
<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=utf-8'>
Or short version
<meta charset='utf-8'>
That should be pretty enough for Russian characters to be correctly displayed on a webpage.
if your doctype is html declare <meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=UTF-8'> but if your doctype is xhtml then declare <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />.Never assume that end-user will act correctly during your designsIf you already have some document, edit your document's meta tag for charset declaration and use notepad++ encoding>convert to UTF-8 without BOM, save your document, safely go on with your multilingual structure from now on.php tag is irrelevant for your question since you don't mention about any database char setting.
There is no difference between Latin and Cyrillic characters in UTF-8. Both are just byte sequences. Configure your server or PHP script to send Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf, and you are rather safe.
Your editor might have problems when the font you are using does not contain Russian characters. Choose another font then.
And please ignore the <meta> element recommendations. You don't need that: it is useless when your HTTP headers are correct, and maybe harmful if they aren’t.
Well you have to check 2 things
To ensure that *.php is an UTF-8 file I use PSPad. If file is not in UTF-8, I save
it like that: http://stepolabs.com/upload/utf-8.png
Then your website must have UTF-8 encoding in <meta> tag;
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
... more about metatagging.
Finally if everything is done well - (format and meta declaration) all should be displayed properly!
We are trying to add non-english chars to the site URL and inside text.
Currently php pages don't see Unicode 'get' arguments. The pages see the arguments as question marks, although we added <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf8">
See sample here.
Many thanks!
Output the strings trough utf8_encode();