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Re: How do I force PHP to assume UTF-8 for $_GET? [message #174424 is a reply to message #174416]

Fri, 10 June 2011 23:20

Jerry Stuckle
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On 6/10/2011 2:32 PM, Martin Kotulla wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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?
>
> Any insights appreciated.
>
> -mk

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.

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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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