Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms [message #184488 is a reply to message #184487] |
Fri, 03 January 2014 12:52 |
Tim Streater
Messages: 328 Registered: September 2010
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<0(dot)cb1d1865c94178664953(dot)20140103123727GMT(dot)87mwjdz1fc(dot)fsf(at)bsb(dot)me(dot)uk>,
Ben Bacarisse <ben(dot)usenet(at)bsb(dot)me(dot)uk> wrote:
> JohnT <john-sospam(at)jtresponse(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> <snip>
>> We're already using iso-8859-1 for the whole website.
>> It will be a lot of work to change all that, so I guess we'll have to put
>> up with the odd Turkish I causing problems.
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> It's not clear (to me at least) what's happening to the data, but as far
> as any normal set of HTML pages are concerned (PHP generated or
> otherwise) you don't have to put up with a dotted I causing problems on
> an ISO-8859-1 encoded page. You can represent any Unicode character in
> a page using character entities (browser and font support is always and
> issue but not nowadays for anything as ordinary as ?).
>
> Can you make a cut-down page that exhibits the problem? Can you provide
> a URL? Can you at least describe the path the data takes and what
> happens to it?
Wasn't this to do with user-entered data? Why not make *those* pages
UTF-8?
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