Re: Best way to encode?

[Ligaya Turmelle <lig@xxxxxxxx>]

Are you talking about page encoding?  if so try utf8 on the pae with the 
form.  (<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset= 
utf-8" />) it handles just about any language for input.  and as long as 
you  don't want to do a search on the input it can go right into the 
database (table character_set = utf8) for later extraction and display 
on a utf8 page.

if you're talking about encoding to "hide" the data - use base64_encode 
and base64_decode.

Respectfully,
Ligaya Turmelle


Brian Dunning wrote:
> I have a form where people input some text, which is then incorporated 
> into an HTML snippet which appears in a textarea for them to copy & 
> paste into a web page.
>
> People will be entering foreign language stuff as well as special 
> characters like copyright, so I have to be sure this is handled properly.
>
> I tried rawurlencode() but that results in HTML which displays the 
> encoding when they paste it into their web page. I tried htmlentities 
> but that gives different characters than what they typed when displayed 
> in the textarea. I also tried no encoding, which worked well, except 
> that it gets messed up when I try to write it to the database and I have 
> the same problem again when retrieving it.
>
> "Cañon ©" is a good example.
> htmlentities('Cañon ©') -> Cañon © in the textarea, displays on their 
> web page as Cañon ©
> rawurlencode('Cañon ©') -> Ca%C3%B1on%20%C2%A9 in the textarea, displays 
> on their web page as Ca%C3%B1on%20%C2%A9from the database.
> No encoding gives Cañon © in the textarea and displays on their web page 
> as Cañon ©, but appears in the database as Cañon ©
>
> How can I handle this so that what ultimately displays on their web 
> page, after copying the HTML out of the textarea, matches what they 
> typed in the form, and yet can be read & written from the database 
> properly?
>
> - Brian

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