lazarantal Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 Hi, I have the following text: Utaz&AOE-s If I check the encoding of this text with mb_detect_encoding, it says that the text is pure ASCII. My page's encoding is UTF-8, so on the webpage I should see Utazás (&AOE- is an UT8 code for á. It doesnt matter what I do, the text is displayed as above. I've tried doing many things like converting the text to utf8, converting to utf7 than to utf8, .... Nothing worked. Any idea why cant I display the above text correcly? I also have this line in my code: header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); Any idea is appreciated! Thanks, Tony Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/276838-converting-ascii-to-utf-8/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizmola Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 Hi, I have the following text: Utaz&AOE-s[/size] If I check the encoding of this text with mb_detect_encoding, it says that the text is pure ASCII. My page's encoding is UTF-8, so on the webpage I should see Utazás (&AOE- is an UT8 code for á. &AOE- is not the code for anything. Are you trying to use an html entity? Those have the pattern &...; For a specific UTF-8 character you would use ✏ If you have a utf8 string, then you should just be able to echo it out. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/276838-converting-ascii-to-utf-8/#findComment-1424206 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazarantal Posted April 12, 2013 Author Share Posted April 12, 2013 &AOE- is not the code for anything. Are you trying to use an html entity? Those have the pattern &...; For a specific UTF-8 character you would use ✏ If you have a utf8 string, then you should just be able to echo it out. According to this website the code is us-ascii code: http://www.string-functions.com/encodingtable.aspx?encoding=65000&decoding=20127 What I would like to achieve is to echo the corresponding utf8 character. In this case -> á. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/276838-converting-ascii-to-utf-8/#findComment-1424360 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzman1 Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 According to this website the code is us-ascii code: No, is not. I think the us-ascii code for an "á" symbol is: $str = "\xe1"; // á echo utf8_encode($str); Can you try to get a ascii code for an "á" symbol? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/276838-converting-ascii-to-utf-8/#findComment-1424382 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazarantal Posted April 12, 2013 Author Share Posted April 12, 2013 No, is not. I think the us-ascii code for an "á" symbol is: $str = "\xe1"; // á echo utf8_encode($str); Can you try to get a ascii code for an "á" symbol? echo ord('á'); This gives me 255, which is correct according to the extended ASCII table. 225 341 E1 11100001 á á á Latin small letter a with acute However, the above text is returned by Gmail imap (via a socket connection), so I assume it is correct. I just can`t figure out the encoding. Actually the question is why Google returns &AOE- instead of á for an á. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/276838-converting-ascii-to-utf-8/#findComment-1424450 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazarantal Posted April 12, 2013 Author Share Posted April 12, 2013 In the mean time, I found the answer. It is an UTF-7 encoded text. For some reasons (that I am not aware of), IMAP protocol still uses this old encoding. This is the site which helped me to figure out the solution. http://fetchmail.berlios.de/Mailbox-Names-UTF7.html In order to echo the text correctly, I just had to use the imap_utf7_decode function. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/276838-converting-ascii-to-utf-8/#findComment-1424458 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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