URL encoding spanish words

Question

I'm building a Spanish dictionary. I get the definitions from www.rae.es . Problem:

the search engine doesn't work with acute accents ( á é í ó ú ). The output is an error message from rae.es stating that the word is not recognized. For example: for the word "baúl", this comes up (translated): "The word baÃºl isn't registered in the dictionary."

How can I use urlencode() or other function to solve this problem? Please check the code by right click and inspect element with Google Chrome, Safari or Firefox.

http://verbum.xtrweb.com/verbumpost.php?word=ba%C3%BAl&word0=

Thanks!

Doesn't http://php.net/manual/en/normalizer.normalize.php do what you want — ta.speot.is, Feb 28 '13 at 07:44
See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2167960/handling-unicode-values-in-get-parameters-with-php — Tomalak, Feb 28 '13 at 07:45

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 28 '13 at 07:44

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Try doing urlencode(utf8_encode($string)) instead of just urlencode($string).

answered Feb 28 '13 at 07:44

Mikhail Vladimirov

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Let's see. The browser sends UTF-8-encoded GET requests. PHP decodes them as latin1. How is `urlencode()` going to help? – Tomalak Feb 28 '13 at 07:45
if my variable is $words , should I write it as – j1nma Feb 28 '13 at 19:19

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 28 '13 at 07:44

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Use htmlentities on your search term and try using post, not get: http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php

answered Feb 28 '13 at 07:44

Toon Casteele

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URL encoding spanish words

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