$_GET with URLEncoded characters not accessible?

[David Nelson]

Hi,

 

I have a PHP page where I'm passing in $_GET variables such as the following:

 

page.php?st=NX-Zero---Cartas-pra-Voc%EAasd-%5BAG...

 

%EA represents the "ê" character.

 

So long %EA is there, my variable is inaccessible through PHP. In page.php I simply have "echo $_GET['st']"

 

If I remove %EA then it works. "%5B" is also present in the URL, which represents the "[" character, and it causes no problems.

 

What do you think the issue may be here?

 

Thanks,

 

David

[dadamssg]

<?php
$whatever = urldecode($_GET['st']);
echo $whatever;
?>

 

 

[David Nelson]

Thanks for the reply, but I wasn't asking how to decode it. I simply can't do anything with the variable so long as it has those characters in it. I can't echo it as it is, or after doing an URLDecode on it.

[Prismatic]

$str = base64_encode(urlencode('Whatever'));