Special Characters Problem in Form

shahid_146 · 12-19-2005, 05:25 AM

PHP-MySQL
I've got an order form where people can input name, address etc. One of the customers have tried to put special characters :

State Field : Baden-Württemberg

But when I display the order details, it show it liek this :

Baden-WÃ¼rttemberg

Is there any function in PHP to avoid this problem ?

mch · 12-19-2005, 10:07 AM

On the display page set the encoding to UTF-8.

sdsinc · 12-20-2005, 05:18 AM

You can also use htmlentities() with character sets like ISO-8859-1

shahid_146 · 12-20-2005, 05:55 AM

I tried mch's method by setting the encoding to utf-8 and it worked fine. Thanks very much.....

One more question though I need to display Dates in French. Wonder if u've any idea of that as well ?

sdsinc · 12-20-2005, 06:41 AM

setlocale

http://php.net/setlocale

shahid_146 · 12-20-2005, 10:04 AM

Thanks SDCinc....

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