Help with charset

lingo5 · June 8, 2011

Hi, I am building a website in Spanish and I use charset=iso-8859-1 in all the pages and it works fine everywhere except for one page where accents are displayed as "?" when displaying a variable that has been passed from another page. I`ve tried everything, changing to different charsets etc...but no luck.

This is the code for the page where accents are not displaying correctly:

$companyname = $_GET['company_name'];  //this  the variable that gets the value from the previous page

?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="es"/>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>

<link href="../CP_estilos/extranet_styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>

<body>
<?php include('EST_header.php'); ?>
<form action="<?php $PHP_SELF;?>" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="form1" id="form1">
  <table width="850" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0">
    <tr>
      <td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10">
        <tr>
          <td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6">
            <tr>
              <td><span class="CP_blueTXT">Presupuesto para <span class="CP_errorLoginTxt"><?php echo (isset($_GET['facturainserted']))?'<p>Factura insertada correctamente</p>':''; ?></span></span></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td class="personalTitulo" charset="iso-8859-1"><?=$companyname?> // tis is the variable that displays text with no accents
                <input name="id_cliente" type="hidden" id="id_cliente" value="<?php echo $row_clientes_RS['id_cliente']; ?>" />
                <input name="cliente_email" type="hidden" id="cliente_email" value="<?php echo $row_clientes_RS['cliente_email']; ?>" /></td>
            </tr>
          </table></td>
        </tr>
      </table>
        <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0">
          <tr>
            <td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6">
              <tr>
                <td width="25%"><span class="CP_blueTXT">Fecha presupuesto</span></td>
                <td width="75%"><span class="CP_blueTXT">Nº presupuesto</span></td>
              </tr>
              <tr>
                <td><input name="quotation_date" type="text" class="CP_loginFormFields" id="quotation_date" value="" size="32" /></td>
                <td><input name="quotation_number" type="text" class="CP_loginFormFields" id="quotation_number" value="" size="32" /></td>
              </tr>
            </table></td>
          </tr>
        </table>
        <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10">
          <tr>
            <td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6">
              <tr>
                <td><span class="CP_blueTXT">Título presupuesto</span></td>
              </tr>
              <tr>
                <td><input name="quotation_title" type="text" class="CP_loginFormFields" id="quotation_title" value="" size="70" /></td>
              </tr>
            </table></td>
          </tr>
        </table>
        <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10">
          <tr>
            <td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6">
              <tr>
                <td> </td>
              </tr>
              <tr>
                <td> </td>
              </tr>
            </table></td>
          </tr>
        </table>
        <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10">
          <tr>
            <td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6">
              <tr>
                <td> </td>
              </tr>
              <tr>
                <td> </td>
              </tr>
            </table></td>
          </tr>
        </table>
        <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
          <tr>
            <td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6">
              <tr>
                <td width="2%"> </td>
                <td width="98%"><input name="upload" type="submit" id="upload" value="guardar presupuesto" />                  <input type="hidden" name="MM_insert" value="form1" /></td>
              </tr>
            </table></td>
          </tr>
        </table></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</form>
</body>
</html>

fugix · June 8, 2011

I will look into your problem shortly, however as a side note, i would recommened against using $PHP_SELF as your forms action, here's why

lingo5 · June 8, 2011

thanks fugix for te advice on the <?php $PHP_SELF;?> stuff. I have now fixed all my code.

Any ideas on the charset problem?

fugix · June 8, 2011

i have read into this a little and have found a few websites that talk about a few issues that can be causing this..it is possible that your server may be overriding your charset...read this and let me know if it helps

lingo5 · June 8, 2011

Hi fugix,

I have read the document you sent me and yes, my browser is set to the correct charset and I don't think the server is messing with the charset as other pages show accenta ok. It is just this page where I get the $companyname variable from the previous page. Could it be because I pass the variable in the URL?

TeNDoLLA · June 8, 2011

How about the editor you use to save the files? What charset does it use for saving?

xyph · June 8, 2011

Use htmlentities() before passing the variables through the URL.

If you're only echo'ing the data, you shouldn't need to use html_entity_decode()

lingo5 · June 8, 2011

Hi Xyph,

sorry I don't know what you mean. This is how I pass the variable

<tr>
              <td class="personalTitulo" ><?=$companyname?>
                <input name="id_cliente" type="hidden" id="id_cliente" value="<?php echo $row_clientes_RS['id_cliente']; ?>" />
                <input name="cliente_email" type="hidden" id="cliente_email" value="<?php echo $row_clientes_RS['cliente_email']; ?>" /></td>
            </tr>

xyph · June 8, 2011

echo htmlentities($row_clientes_RS['id_cliente'])

lingo5 · June 8, 2011

sorry xyph, wrong code. Here's how I pass the variable

header("Location: EST_quotation_insert.php?company_name=$company_name");

lingo5 · June 8, 2011

fugix how do I find that out?

lingo5 · June 8, 2011

OK, this is what i've found out:

I pass the variable after executing the record insert query like this:

header("Location: EST_quotation_insert.php?company_name=$company_name");

I have noticed that the URL showing on my browser looks like this:

http://localhost/admin/EST_quotation_insert.php?company_name=Alba Comunicaci�n

notice the weird character instead of the accent (should read Comunicación).

Now, if I manually fix that on my browser, the accent shows fine on the page.

Why is the variable

company_name=$company_name");

being messed up????

fugix · June 8, 2011

fugix how do I find that out?

find what out?

lingo5 · June 8, 2011

How about the editor you use to save the files? What charset does it use for saving?

fugix · June 8, 2011

How about the editor you use to save the files? What charset does it use for saving?

well im not sure what editor you are using, however there should be an option in the edito options showing the default charset and how to change it...also, i think your var may be displaying strange characters because you have not prepped it to pass through the url. try

header("Location: EST_quotation_insert.php?company_name=urlencode($company_name)");

or even one step further

header("Location: EST_quotation_insert.php?company_name=htmlentities(urlencode($company_name))");

lingo5 · June 8, 2011

oh well....I think I've found the problem. The page displays fine on Firefox and IE8. I am using IE9 at the moment and that seems to be the problem.

Thankyou all for your help.

fugix · June 8, 2011

oh well....I think I've found the problem. The page displays fine on Firefox and IE8. I am using IE9 at the moment and that seems to be the problem.

Thankyou all for your help.

glad you found the solution, however you will want to make sure that people using ie9 are able to view the page correctly as well.

lingo5 · June 8, 2011

IE 9 is still a beta version. Hopefully they will fix this soon.

fugix · June 8, 2011

IE 9 is still a beta version. Hopefully they will fix this soon.

hope so, if i were you i would send them a message in regards to this

xyph · June 8, 2011

IE9 isn't automatically URL Encoding the special characters for you.

Try using this

header("Location: EST_quotation_insert.php?company_name=" . rawurlencode($company_name) );

lingo5 · June 9, 2011

YESSSS!!!!....xyph thanks a lot. Thanks all!!

fugix · June 9, 2011

IE9 isn't automatically URL Encoding the special characters for you.

Try using this

header("Location: EST_quotation_insert.php?company_name=" . rawurlencode($company_name) );

i posted something very similar before, however im glad it worked for you.

xyph · June 9, 2011

You had the function within the quotes

fugix · June 9, 2011

You had the function within the quotes

ah, your right... :facewall:

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