Replacing accent or wrong cast PHP

Asked Jun 25 '15 at 15:08

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When trying to make a JS chat I got stuck in a problem with accented charactes. Their names are gotten from Mongodb with PHP and then sent to the view and js like that:

$name = $user['id']['info']['first_name']; //Éric
$c = mb_detect_encoding($name, mb_detect_order(), true);
$name = iconv($c,'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $name);
var username = "<?php echo $name; ?>" // Displays ric

I tried sugestions from this question, mostly works only if string set mannualy, like:

$name = 'á|â|à|ä';
...
var username = "<?php echo $name; ?>" // Displays a|a|a|a

Am I missing something?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

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asked Jun 25 '15 at 15:08

Vizael

Try htmlentities or utf8_encode? – Naruto Jun 25 '15 at 15:12
IIRC, without `ASCII//TRANSLIT//IGNORE` iconv will fail (return '') on un-tranlitarable chars – birdspider Jun 25 '15 at 15:52
@Naruto, none worked, but html_entity_decode solved the problem, it was returning &Eacute already Thanks – Vizael Jun 25 '15 at 16:25
No problem, it had to be an encoding problem :) – Naruto Jun 26 '15 at 07:33
Check my answer http://stackoverflow.com/a/26514376/192024 it has the solution – ItalyPaleAle Jul 09 '15 at 21:28

Replacing accent or wrong cast PHP

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