[SOLVED] html entities converts pound (£) incorectly?

[Dragen]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me why, when I use htmlentities on the pound symbol (£), instead of converting it to £ as expected, it changes it to £?

 

I have a form in which users can enter information and I am using htmlentities on it and when it is output it returns all of the pound signs as above.

 

Any ides?

Thanks.

[Psycho]

Works fine for me. May be a problem due to the region settings on the server or the client. Can you post example of the EXACT input and the EXACT output. For the output, I am referring to the raw HTML code, not what is displayed in the browser.

[Dragen]

hm, strange. It's all on a British server and also the same on my local server.

The input is the following (taken directly from a textarea in thet form):

WE ARE DELIGHTED TO OFFER FREE SHIPPING ON ALL ORDERS OVER £20.00! (UK ONLY)

 

And here's part of the code that processes it:

$var = html_entity_decode(trim($var));
echo $var.'<br />';
$var = htmlentities($var, ENT_COMPAT, 'ISO-8859-15');
echo 'htmlentities: '.$var.'<br />';

return $var;

 

I use entity decode to ensure that when I encode, I'm not double encoding (ending up with things like &)

The first echo statement outputs the text correctly (although the pound sign is not encoded as £, obviously).

After the htmlentities, I echo again, but now the output is as follows:

WE ARE DELIGHTED TO OFFER FREE SHIPPING ON ALL ORDERS OVER £20.00! (UK ONLY)

That's taken from the source view.

Strangely it appears to have encoded the pound AND added the  which has also been encoded..

[Dragen]

I found this, which appears to be the same, or similar, problem: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=39075

Although I don't understand what the answer means?

[Dragen]

Okay,

Sorry for the tripple post, but I've found the solution.

The problem was that my web page was using charset UTF-8 whereas it appears this doesn't understand the pound symbol properly?

 

I've now changed it to charset ISO-8859-15, which seems to have fixed the problem!