| Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms [message #184489 is a reply to message #184486] |
Fri, 03 January 2014 12:53   |
Thomas 'PointedEars'
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JohnT wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 20:52:37 +0100, Christoph Michael Becker wrote:
>> JohnT wrote:
>>> One of the websites that I am working on is getting a lot of interest
>>> from countries that make a lot of use of accented characters.
>>>
>>> Usually accented characters come through fine.
>>>
>>> However, some are replaced by the character codes. e.g. İ This
>>> seems to be occurring for some Turkish and Romanian characters.
>>>
>>> Is PHP doing this ?
>>
>> It seems to me that this might already been done by the browser.
>> Unfortunately, I was not able to find any normative reference, so out of
>> curiosity I set up a simple form with accept-charset=ISO-8859-1, and
>> entered İ (U+0130) in the contained textarea. Firefox 26 and Chrome
>> 31.0 send it as HTML entity İ, IE 11, however, sends it as Ý
>> (U+00DD).
>>
>> A solution is to use UTF-8 encoding, as J.O. already mentioned.
>
> Changing to UTF-8 is not an option,
Why not?
> but I had already decided to use UTF-8 for any future websites
Good idea.
> as that is the PHP 5 default,
How did you get this idea?
> and makes the programming a lot easier.
If only it were so. PHP 5 still is oblivious as to character encoding.
PointedEars
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