mattVo Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 Hi all, I use a php form for people to upload bios of themselves, stored as a TEXT datatype in MySQL. Problem is, there are strange accents stored in the database. How would I prevent this for future posts from people who use the form? Collation? I use Latin1_swedish_ci, doesnt this one contain most of the special characters? I think what people do is copy paste from Word, so it might be Word formatting? Thanks all! Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenway Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 UTF-8 covers most characters, unlike latin1, which you are using. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattVo Posted June 22, 2009 Author Share Posted June 22, 2009 Thanks! I noticed that by changing my html's page character set to iso-8859 that it fixed my database problems. Probably had to do with how the page handled user inputs in the form's POST, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenway Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 You have to make sure everything -- html, php, mysql -- are all aware of the correct character set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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