On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 13:58 -0500, Larry Garfield wrote: > On Sunday 18 March 2007 5:57 am, Don Don wrote: > > Hi all, > > my program outputs some characters along with text from the database, > > these texts contain chars like ‘ ’. How can i get rid of theses chars > > and display their meaning instead ? I am thinking htmlspecialchars or html > > entities will do the job will it ? > > > > > > Cheers > > It sounds like you're running into character encoding issues. They suck. :-) > See here for details: > > http://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/stupid-quotes > http://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/more-on-stupid-quotes > http://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/unicode-8-vs-16 I found the following to be quite informative: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
