On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:10:33 -0400, APseudoUtopia wrote: > I'm using the PECL GeoIP module on php 5.2.10. When I look up an IP > address, the geoip_record_by_name() function is giving me a string > that contains "special" characters, such as the following: The PECL GeoIP page links to <http://www.maxmind.com/>, and a search for "charset" reveals the following: <http://forum.maxmind.com/viewtopic.php?p=2031&highlight=> <quote> the binary database return the cityname in iso-8859-1 by default. I guess your output is in a different charset. The CAPI based wrappers have a set_charset method. If you use any other API, use the language charset encoding to transform iso-8859-1 into the desired output format. for php you might use: Code: $city = mb_convert_encoding( $old_city, 'UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1'); or Code: $city = utf8_encode ( $oold_city ) </quote> /Nisse -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
