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Re: How do I force PHP to assume UTF-8 for $_GET? [message #174417 is a reply to message #174416]

Fri, 10 June 2011 18:54

Tim Streater
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In article <95f6abF3qjU1(at)mid(dot)individual(dot)net>,
Martin Kotulla <mk999(at)gmx(dot)de> wrote:

> I have a Windows application (which I cannot change) that calls my PHP
> script and passes it parameters via GET. The application sends properly
> encoded UTF-8 parameters, but does not indicate the UTF-8 character set
> in the HTTP headers (it does not indicate any character set at all).
>
> When I now access the parameters via $_GET in my PHP script, they are
> interpreted as ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8.
>
> For example, the Chinese character U+3563 is represented by the UTF-8
> bytes 0xE3, 0x95, 0xA3. PHP sees the two ISO-8859-1 character 0xE3 and
> 0xA3, and silently drops 0x95, presumably because it is outside of the
> range of valid characters in ISO-8859-1.
>
> So, how can I force PHP to regard the parameters as UTF-8-encoded?

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);

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Tim

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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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