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Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms

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JohnT wrote:

> On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 20:52:37 +0100, Christoph Michael Becker wrote:
>> JohnT wrote:
>>> One of the websites that I am working on is getting a lot of interest
>>> from countries that make a lot of use of accented characters.
>>> 
>>> Usually accented characters come through fine.
>>> 
>>> However, some are replaced by the character codes. e.g. İ This
>>> seems to be occurring for some Turkish and Romanian characters.
>>> 
>>> Is PHP doing this ?
>> 
>> It seems to me that this might already been done by the browser.
>> Unfortunately, I was not able to find any normative reference, so out of
>> curiosity I set up a simple form with accept-charset=ISO-8859-1, and
>> entered İ (U+0130) in the contained textarea.  Firefox 26 and Chrome
>> 31.0 send it as HTML entity İ, IE 11, however, sends it as Ý
>> (U+00DD).
>> 
>> A solution is to use UTF-8 encoding, as J.O. already mentioned.
> 
> Changing to UTF-8 is not an option,

Why not?

> but I had already decided to use UTF-8 for any future websites

Good idea.

> as that is the PHP 5 default,

How did you get this idea?

> and makes the programming a lot easier.

If only it were so.  PHP 5 still is oblivious as to character encoding.


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Processing accented characters submitted from forms JohnT <john-sospam@jtresponse.co.uk> - 2014-01-02 15:55 +0000
  Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2014-01-02 18:15 +0100
    Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms JohnT <john-sospam@jtresponse.co.uk> - 2014-01-03 11:37 +0000
      Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-01-03 12:37 +0000
        Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-03 12:52 +0000
          Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms JohnT <john-sospam@jtresponse.co.uk> - 2014-01-03 13:00 +0000
            Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-01-03 10:09 -0500
            Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2014-01-03 18:57 +0100
        Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms JohnT <john-sospam@jtresponse.co.uk> - 2014-01-03 12:53 +0000
          Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-01-03 14:30 +0000
            Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-01-03 10:11 -0500
              Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-01-03 20:28 +0000
                Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-01-03 22:54 +0100
                Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-03 21:58 +0000
                Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-01-03 22:01 +0000
                Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-01-03 19:59 -0500
  Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-01-02 20:52 +0100
    Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms JohnT <john-sospam@jtresponse.co.uk> - 2014-01-03 11:40 +0000
      Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-01-03 13:53 +0100
        Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms JohnT <john-sospam@jtresponse.co.uk> - 2014-01-03 13:05 +0000
          Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-01-03 16:03 +0100
            Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-01-03 17:08 +0100

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