Hello Lance--
On 8/5/05 2:18 PM, "Lance Earl" <lance@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I recently upgraded my server. It is running Ubuntu Linux with PHP and
> MySQL. My site allows people to post content to their own web oages
> through a web interface. Many of my customers compose their content on a
> word processer and then cust and paste it to the web interface for
> insertion to the database and later retrevial and display on a web page.
>
> The problem I am having is that content which includes quotes is is not
> being seen correctly. Rather than inserting a slashed quote (/"), it
> inserts a bunch of strange formatted gunk. A sample of the problem anc be
> seen at www.dallypost.com/ranch/page5688.php
>
You have an encoding problem--the content is being uploaded to your site
using a different encoding mechanism (most likely utf-8) than the one you
use to display it.
I'm not much of an expert in this area, but a couple of suggestions:
1. You're already outputting UTF-8 code from the looks of it, so a simple
Header ("Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8");
Or even adding this to your HTML code in the <HEAD>:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8">
Should do it. Remember to also use htmlentities ($data, null, "utf-8"); to
properly encode the entities in your content.
2. Convert the text over from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1. I think you can use
utf8_decode, or you may have to go with the mbstring extension (not too sure
here, I'd just go ahead and convert everything over to UTF-8).
I'm sure some other people who have more experience with this stuff can give
you even more pointers, but this should get you started.
Cheers,
Marco
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