Dave Goodchild wrote:
> Hi all, I posted a question a couple of days ago regarding a web app I have
> wherein users are able to indicated prices and concessions via a text
> field,
> and the resulting encoding issues I have experienced, the main one being
> seeing the pound sign as £ if viewing the results in a browser with the
> encoding set to Latin-1.
>
> My question is, how do I overcome this. If I set my browser encoding to
> Latin-1 and enter the data I get that odd symbol, if I set it to UTF-8 I
> get
> clean data. Is there a way to sniff out what encoding the browser is using
> and then clean the data in any way.
check out phpinfo(); there is stuff in there telling you about what client
encoding was [probably] used.
that said you should probably opt to output everything as UTF-8 - all decent
browsers will return data in the same encoding as the page was given to them in
by default - this requires you to have php send the correct header (don't
bother with all that META tag crap), doing the following will automatically cause
the appropriate header to be sent:
ini_set('output_encoding', 'UTF-8');
>
> I am googling for help also but you guys have been so helpful in the past I
> thought I'd try you also.
>
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