Who Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Hello,working on a script that depends on foreign characters being passed across URLs. I think I can best explain the problem with a few examples:(note: ISO-8859-9 is the turkish character set. I don't speak turkish, but this is where people ran into problems)index.php:[code]<html><head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-9" /></head><body><?php echo $_GET['word'] ?></body></html>[/code]Now, when accessing the following url:(Those characters are part of the turkish character set)<url>/index.php?word=[b]×ØÞßåæç[/b]The URL gets converted to <url>/index.php?word=[b]%C3%97%C3%98%C3%9E%C3%9F%C3%A5%C3%A6%C3%A7[/b]Which is the percent-encoded version of the characters.However, the output of the actual page becomes this:[img]http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/1691/iso88599kz4.png[/img](image because I can't actually paste the results here)This only happens for GET requests. If I submit the same string via a POST request, then it arrives in PHP's $_POST['word'] fine, and echoing it will display the entered text. It also works fine if I specify UTF-8 encoding instead of ISO-8859-*. Using UTF-8, entering stuff like index.php?word=Ββεαομρί will work as expected. (It gets turned into "%CE%92%CE%B2%CE%B5%CE%B1%CE%BF%CE%BC%CF%81%CE%AF")When using UTF-8 and entering the Turkish character set, the percent-encoded string will actually display fine. So one thought I had was that it converted GET variables to unicode no matter what (that, or the browser does), but I don't know how to get it from UTF-8 percent encoding to ISO-8859-9.And like I said, it works fine for POST requests, which is the weird part. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/29492-iso-8859-characters-in-get-data/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
r-it Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 have u tried urlencode Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/29492-iso-8859-characters-in-get-data/#findComment-135367 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Who Posted December 5, 2006 Author Share Posted December 5, 2006 [quote author=r-it link=topic=117393.msg478966#msg478966 date=1165308947]have u tried urlencode[/quote]The problem with urlencode is that it will render the characters to be unreadable. I'm planning to eventually mod_rewrite the URL so it will be http://url/<special characters>/, which rewrites to script.php?word=<special characters>. Most browsers (with the exception of FireFox) are able to display unicode in URLs fine, so it's important to keep it that way to make it human-readable. URL encoding would break that effect. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/29492-iso-8859-characters-in-get-data/#findComment-135716 Share on other sites More sharing options...
willfitch Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 Try using utf8_encode if you keep having this issue. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/29492-iso-8859-characters-in-get-data/#findComment-135860 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Who Posted December 7, 2006 Author Share Posted December 7, 2006 [quote author=willfitch link=topic=117393.msg479465#msg479465 date=1165372207]Try using utf8_encode if you keep having this issue.[/quote]ISO-8859-* has nothing to do with utf8_encode, and I fail to see what this would fix in the context of this thread. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/29492-iso-8859-characters-in-get-data/#findComment-136568 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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