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cURL foreign language encoding problem


hotdog1983

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Hi guys, I've been struggling with this cURL code that post variables in foreign languages to another site.

 

I tried to encode the UTF-8 characters to html entities before posting them via cURL and

 

I tried lots of these variations...

 

$firstname = htmlentities($_POST['firstname'],ENT_COMPAT,'UTF-8');
$firstname = htmlentities($_POST['firstname'],ENT_COMPAT); 
$firstname = htmlentities($_POST['firstname'],ENT_QUOTES);
$firstname = iconv('utf-8','iso-8859-1',$_POST['firstname']);
$firstname = iconv('utf-8','windows-1253',$_POST['cfirstname']);
and so on...

 

but the foreign characters I get through cURL look like

 

����� �� �구���?

 

The way I want to see them is something like this I believe it's called html entities

 

안녕하세요 저는

 

so I can see all the other languages on an iso-8859-1 page.

 

 

Is it possible for cURL to post the variables in html entities?

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