Greetings,
I have a problem with iconv(), and I need help solving it.
Here is the background:
I have a Web page with a Form that saves data to a MySQL database. I
need to retrieve the data from the database and create a PDF document
with FPDF.
The Web Page, the database, and the browser are all set to UTF-8, so I
have to convert the data from the database to ISO-8859-1 in order to
have FPDF show it correctly. I am using iconv() to convert the data.
It works like a charm for the data acquired with text boxes, but it does
not parse the data acquired from textareas correctly.
For example:
I have an text input (<input type="text" />) and a textarea
(<textarea></textarea>).
I type the string "sometextàèìòùésomeothertext" on both the input fields
and save it into the database through POST.
If I retrieve the data and show it on a web page, it shows correctly. I
then create the PDF with FPDF parsing the data with the following
instructions:
iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1", $inputText)
iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT", $textarea) or iconv("UTF-8",
"ISO-8859-1", $textarea)
The PDF shows the first record correctly, while the second only shows
"sometext"
If I use
iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1//IGNORE", $textarea)
the PDF shows "sometextsomeothertext" skipping all the special chars.
Why is the textarea behaving differently than the text input? Is there a
way to fix this?
I would really appreciate any help, thank you.
Stefano
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