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Re: How do I force PHP to assume UTF-8 for $_GET? [message #174541 is a reply to message #174424]

Fri, 17 June 2011 07:27

Martin Kotulla
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Registered: June 2011

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On 11.06.2011 01:20, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>
> Get whomever wrote the Windows application to fix it. If it is sending
> UTF-8 characters, it must indicate so.
>
> It may not even be PHP's fault - the characters may be filtered out by
> the server. It's the old story - GIGO - and you have garbage going in.
>

Jerry, Richard:

Actually, it's another old story: Hunting purported bugs in the wrong
place hinders fixing the real bugs... :-)

My assumption that PHP was seeing only two bytes instead of three was
wrong. I wrote the string to a log file and looked at it with 'tail'. It
was 'tail' that dropped the out-of-range character 0x95, not PHP. When I
wrote strlen($name) to the log file, the value turned out to be 3.

The real bug was in a completely different place: The PHP script called
a Python script, and I forgot to urlencode the parameters. Now that this
is done, the script combo works fine.

Thank you to both of you!

Best,

-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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