[SOLVED] help find this function :/

[asmith]

Hi,

 

its been a while I'm looking for this function where converts 'سلام' to 'سلام'

 

I thought it is htmlspecialchars but no success.

 

Actually I have 'سلام' and I need to convert it back to the arabic characters.

 

Any idea?

[Mark Baker]

iconv() or mbstring_convert_encoding()

[MadTechie]

htmlspecialchars  encode html you want to decode html

try html_entity_decode()

ie

echo html_entity_decode("سلام");

[asmith]

@ mark baker,

 

My version of php does not support this mbstring_convert_encoding().

Can you show me the example?

 

@ MadTechie

the word 'سلام' is being viewed properly on the page. But when I view the the page source it is still سلام

 

even echo "سلام";  , shows 'سلام' fine on te page, but still in the page source it is viewed by that. I wanna have it change in the page source too.

 

html_entity_decode() seems to do nothing with "سلام"

[MadTechie]

try this

you must have the Content-type set to UTF-8

See Next post this site is messing it up

 

EDIT: okay take out the & this site seam to add them!!

[MadTechie]

See attached

 

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[asmith]

wow you nailed it

 

I gotta go through it as there's some line I don't get, But my job to understand Thanks A TON for that.

 

I see you have used hexdec there ^^ I have a question about this hex and binary things, its first time I'm working with them.

 

I started a thread 2 days ago, but no answer. Do you mind take look at it?

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,234737.0.html