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Re: How do I force PHP to assume UTF-8 for $_GET? [message #174425 is a reply to message #174422] Sat, 11 June 2011 03:28 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Tim Streater <timstreater(at)waitrose(dot)com> spake the secret code
<timstreater-3C1F83(dot)23282710062011(at)news(dot)individual(dot)net> thusly:

> In article <95fidnFk6U1(at)mid(dot)individual(dot)net>,
> Martin Kotulla <mk999(at)gmx(dot)de> wrote:
>
>> On 10.06.2011 22:56, Tim Streater wrote:
>>>
>>> OK, maybe I was asking the wrong question. What do you mean by "access"
>>> in "When I now access the parameters via $_GET in my PHP script, ..."?
>>> Have you checked that when the Win-app sends U+3563 you get three bytes
>>> of data (0xE3, 0x95, 0xA3) in your PHP script? What are you then
>>> intending to do with those Chinese characters?
>
>> The Windows app sends three UTF-8 encoded characters. The PHP $_GET
>> array only returns two, one being dropped by PHP because it considers
>> out-of-range characters (in its ISO-8859-1 mind) incorrect.
>
> This may not be PHP's fault. Re-reading your first post I see that your
> win-app does not indicate UTF-8 in the HTTP headers. That may mean that
> the byte stream is wrong before PHP even sees it. But I'm just guessing.

You can test that idea by running Fiddler2 on the machine where the
Windows application is running. You should be able to see the entire
byte stream between application and remote server.
<http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/>
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