html special characters

[vlada]

first of all, hello everyone and sorry if someone asked this question already, i was trying to find answer, but i couldn't.

it's abut special characters in my language (serbian). for example:

user enter his name: Mića

he submit it on page submit.php and that page store his name in db

in db it is stored as Mića

than, index.php retrieve his name and it is echoed as Mića

of course, i want index.php to echo it originaly- Mića

is there someone who can help me with this?

thank you in advance

[Daniel0]

Well, that should be quite simple. Don't call htmlentities (or equivalent) before inserting into the database.

[vlada]

thnx for reply

maybe this is prob

before i insert it in db:

$name=trim(htmlspecialchars(strip_tags(addslashes($_POST['ime']))));

to be honest, i'm new in php and i don't really know what this do, i took it from some tutorial

should i completely remove this and leave just

$name=($_POST['ime'];

or something like that?

[vlada]

yea, i did it and it works. thank you very much.

[Daniel0]

If you're using MySQL, you would still want to pass it through mysql_real_escape_string to prevent SQL injections. Other databases have similar functions.