[SOLVED] UTF8 hex convert and viceversa

[asmith]

Hey guys

 

when i use utf-8 (persian) characters in a link :

 

utf.php?key=هندی

 

utf.php :

<php
echo $_GET[key];
?>

 

It doesn't show it right, but this link  : 

 

utf.php?key=%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AF%DB%8C

 

will echo  "هندی" on the page.

 

I wanted to know is there any way i could use utf(persian) in the link or i have to convert it to hex?

 

if the latter, is there a function in php to convert "هندی" to "%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AF%DB%8C" ?

 

( I found utf-decode and encode but they don't seem to work)

[zq29]

As far as I'm aware, you will not be able to pass that in the query string. Have you tried rawurlencode() ?

[asmith]

Yea, that was it.

 

I searched a lot, couldn't find it. 

Thanks a lot man.

Still shame we can't pass those characters in a query string.