Character encoding issue

[Jabop]

Hi guys, long time no see.

 

I have a form, with a radio field:

<input type="radio" name="radio_name" value="Oui, j&#8217;aimerais avoir site en français." />

 

However, when the form is posted, the value submitted is:

Oui, j’aimerais avoir site en français.

 

In turn, prohibits me from comparing the values for validation. I've tried messing with htmlspecialchars/entities, to no avail. How can I preserve the exact value when posting, or, compare them with the "output" value of the characters?

 

Hopefully this description is not too vague. Thanks in advance.

[Jabop]

htmlentities('Oui, j’aimerais avoir site en français.');

 

returns

 

Oui, j�aimerais avoir site en français.

 

which is NOT equal to its original value:

 

Oui, j&#8217;aimerais avoir site en français.

[Rommeo]

i have exactly the same problem.

Could not solve it yet

[redarrow]

Give up boys lol header mate.

 

<?php

header('Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1');

echo htmlentities('Oui, j’aimerais avoir site en français.');

?>

[Jabop]

redarrow, that suggestion did nothing.

 

It returned Oui, j’aimerais avoir site en français.

 

which is still different from its original radio field value.

[effigy]

Have you tried html_entity_decode? I would compare the strings in this fashion since you wouldn't run across an instance of comparing a named entity to a numerical.

[Mchl]

Save source files as UTF-8.

Set HTML encoding to UTF-8

If needed, set database connection to UTF-8

 

Works for me.

 

Also take a look at mb_string extension for working with multibyte encoded strings.

[Jabop]

<?php
echo htmlentities('Oui, j’aimerais avoir site en français.',ENT_QUOTES,'UTF-8');
?>

 

That returns Oui, j’aimerais avoir site en français.

 

I suppose my database value had a different or not standard value for ’

 

I can change that. Fixed, thanks!