| Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms [message #184486 is a reply to message #184474] |
Fri, 03 January 2014 11:40   |
JohnT
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On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 20:52:37 +0100, Christoph Michael Becker wrote:
> JohnT wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Usually accented characters come through fine.
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>> 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 ?
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> 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).
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> A solution is to use UTF-8 encoding, as J.O. already mentioned.
Changing to UTF-8 is not an option, but I had already decided to use UTF-8
for any future websites as that is the PHP 5 default, and makes the
programming a lot easier.
Regards
JohnT
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