Rick Schumeyer wrote: > I will have to try the WIN1252 encoding. > > On the client side, my application is a web browser. On the server > side, it is php scripts on a linux box. The data comes from copying > data from a browser window (pointing to another web site) and pasting it > into an html textarea, which is then submitted. > > Given this, would you still suggest the WIN1252 encoding? No, sticking to utf-8 is safer. Because in the context you describe, it's the browser that decides the character set and encoding of the textarea data it has to submit to the HTTP server. There's a problem when the page that contains the textarea is US-ASCII for example, but the user pastes some non US-ASCII characters. Then the browser has to choose a non US-ASCII encoding for the data, possibly one that the server-side script doesn't expect. I assume this is what happens in your case and the reason of the error you're getting. An easy solution is to use utf-8 for the webpage, so the browser won't have to switch to another encoding since every character is supposed to have a representation in utf-8, "fancy quotes" and everything else. Also, you'll find this extensively and better explained in this article, for example: http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/charset/form-i18n.html -- Daniel PostgreSQL-powered mail user agent and storage: http://www.manitou-mail.org
