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Re: How do I force PHP to assume UTF-8 for $_GET? [message #174418 is a reply to message #174417]

Fri, 10 June 2011 19:00

Martin Kotulla
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Registered: June 2011

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On 10.06.2011 20:54, Tim Streater wrote:
>
> How do you know it's dropped anything? IIRC PHP knows nothing about
> character sets, just bytes. Have you tried something like the following:
>
> $mystr = $_GET["mystr"];
> $utfstr = iconv ("iso-8859-1", "UTF-8//IGNORE", $mystr);
>

I tried that before. But in the example that I gave, the three UTF-8
bytes came out as two ISO-8859-1 characters. The 0x95 was dropped,
presumably because it's in the range 0x80 to 0x9F which is not defined
in ISO-8859-1.

-mk

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		How do I force PHP to assume UTF-8 for $_GET? By: Martin Kotulla on Fri, 10 June 2011 18:32
		Re: How do I force PHP to assume UTF-8 for $_GET? By: Tim Streater on Fri, 10 June 2011 18:54
		Re: How do I force PHP to assume UTF-8 for $_GET? By: Martin Kotulla on Fri, 10 June 2011 19:00
		Re: How do I force PHP to assume UTF-8 for $_GET? By: Tim Streater on Fri, 10 June 2011 20:56
		Re: How do I force PHP to assume UTF-8 for $_GET? By: Martin Kotulla on Fri, 10 June 2011 21:59
		Re: How do I force PHP to assume UTF-8 for $_GET? By: Tim Streater on Fri, 10 June 2011 22:28
		Re: How do I force PHP to assume UTF-8 for $_GET? By: legalize+jeeves on Sat, 11 June 2011 03:28
		Re: How do I force PHP to assume UTF-8 for $_GET? By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 10 June 2011 23:20
		Re: How do I force PHP to assume UTF-8 for $_GET? By: Martin Kotulla on Fri, 17 June 2011 07:27

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