htmlentities

[Azu]

Hello

I've tried all of the functions in PHP, and a lot of custom functions, and I can't find ANY that work right for UTF8.

 

They either don't display the trademark (™) sign right, or don't display common accented letters such (é) right.

 

What is a function for UTF8 that will display them all right?

[darkfreaks]

many people below talk about using

<?php

    mb_convert_encode($s,'HTML-ENTITIES','UTF-8');

?>

to convert non-ascii code into html-readable stuff.  Due to my webserver being out of my control, I was unable to set the database character set, and whenever PHP made a copy of my $s variable that it had pulled out of the database, it would convert it to nasty latin1 automatically and not leave it in it's beautiful UTF-8 glory.

 

So [insert korean characters here] turned into ?????.

 

I found myself needing to pass by reference (which of course is deprecated/nonexistent in recent versions of PHP)

so instead of

<?php

    mb_convert_encode(&$s,'HTML-ENTITIES','UTF-8');

?>

which worked perfectly until I upgraded, so I had to use

<?php

    call_user_func_array('mb_convert_encoding', array(&$s,'HTML-ENTITIES','UTF-8'));

?>

 

Hope it helps someone else out

[Azu]

Thank you but when I try that it gives me this error

XML Parsing Error: junk after document element

=/

 

And also I can't find that function in php.net.. it says it cannot find it.. is it a real function?

[thebadbad]

Tried http://dk2.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-encode.php‽

[Azu]

Errors out just from a simple ampersand.

 

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed

[Azu]

Bump <.<