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PHP messing with HTML Charset Encoding
We've come across special characters being transformed.
What is causing this? How can we fix it?
For example:
ë becomes ë
Thank you.
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Where is this happening? During PHP parsing or once the data is submitted into the DB? – Prisoner Sep 30 '11 at 11:13
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2Duplicate, asked a lot of times, for instance http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7522956/strange-character-in-fresh-wamp-installation and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7501924/php-messing-with-html-charset-encoding – Fabio Sep 30 '11 at 11:26
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ë is an actual UTF8 character. While ë is the expected utf8 character. See this usefull link: http://www.i18nqa.com/debug/utf8-debug.html – Julian Jan 09 '17 at 14:38
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Thats a utf-8 character and you can parse it through utf8_encode() and utf8_decode() in PHP
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Charset can be set at numerous places.
- table charset
- field charset
- PHP-MySQL connection charset
- Apache default charset
- and in HTML metainfo
Make sure you use UTF-8 everywhere, and don't forget to setup the connection properly before the first query:
mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");
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Make sure you are setting your charset in HTML document and with PHP header's function.
Also, you could try to make the first query in MySQL to be SET NAMES=UTF8 (SET NAMES utf8 in MySQL?)
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If this is the output of a PHP script, I guess you may consider mb_internal_encoding() function.
Or you can fix that by HTML encoding meta tag. Like <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> inside <head>...</head>.
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The charset HTTP header sent by the webserver or by the php script has higher priority than the html meta tag. – erenon Sep 30 '11 at 11:35
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