Special Characters Problem in Form

[shahid_146]

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-Württemberg

Is there any function in PHP to avoid this problem ?

 

[mch]

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

 

[Kate]

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

 

[shahid_146]

Special Characters

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 ?

 

[Kate]

setlocale


http://php.net/setlocale

 

[shahid_146]

date in french

Thanks SDCinc....