sambib Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 Hi I have a cms which gets content and displays it in php pages and I can't suss out how get rid of these types of characters [b]� [/b] (instead of apostrophes, single quotes or dashes etc).I use addslashes before inputing the data- $d = addslashes($_POST['content']);and I uses stripslashes when displaying the dataI've set magic quotes to off or on it doesn't seem to make a difference....?any clues greatly appreciated... Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/6066-how-do-i-stop-these-characters-showing-up-%C3%A2%E2%82%AC/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
AV1611 Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 I may be wrong, but I THINK they happen because the characters are not what you think they are... let me give an example, then you can tell me I'm wrong...when you do " in m$ word, it changes it the those funny " that are different when you start the quote than when you end the quote, like the first ones are upside down or whatever. I think that is what you are seeing... I have dealt with them in the past with str_replace() Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/6066-how-do-i-stop-these-characters-showing-up-%C3%A2%E2%82%AC/#findComment-21935 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sambib Posted March 30, 2006 Author Share Posted March 30, 2006 [!--quoteo(post=359646:date=Mar 29 2006, 11:07 PM:name=AV1611)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(AV1611 @ Mar 29 2006, 11:07 PM) [snapback]359646[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]I may be wrong, but I THINK they happen because the characters are not what you think they are... let me give an example, then you can tell me I'm wrong...when you do " in m$ word, it changes it the those funny " that are different when you start the quote than when you end the quote, like the first ones are upside down or whatever. I think that is what you are seeing... I have dealt with them in the past with str_replace()[/quote]I changed the charset of my pages to charset=utf-8 and it seems to have done the trick... Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/6066-how-do-i-stop-these-characters-showing-up-%C3%A2%E2%82%AC/#findComment-22176 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JADASDesigner Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 I did change my charset to utf-8, and I am still getting issues. I get â€, on some pages and  on others. Some of the chars I find hiding in empty spaces. I just delete the spaces, and sometimes they go away, but I have NO idea what is going on here... Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/6066-how-do-i-stop-these-characters-showing-up-%C3%A2%E2%82%AC/#findComment-660875 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JADASDesigner Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 [url=http://jamz1019.com]http://jamz1019.com[/url] That is where they are. They are all over the place on various pages. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/6066-how-do-i-stop-these-characters-showing-up-%C3%A2%E2%82%AC/#findComment-660878 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JADASDesigner Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 I have found that the only place this happens is on the host servers they use. It seems to work fine everywhere else on the planet, so I am switching them to different servers... Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/6066-how-do-i-stop-these-characters-showing-up-%C3%A2%E2%82%AC/#findComment-677601 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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