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Re: How do I force PHP to assume UTF-8 for $_GET?

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On 10.06.2011 20:54, Tim Streater wrote:
>
> How do you know it's dropped anything? IIRC PHP knows nothing about
> character sets, just bytes. Have you tried something like the following:
>
> $mystr = $_GET["mystr"];
> $utfstr = iconv ("iso-8859-1", "UTF-8//IGNORE", $mystr);
>

I tried that before. But in the example that I gave, the three UTF-8 
bytes came out as two ISO-8859-1 characters. The 0x95 was dropped, 
presumably because it's in the range 0x80 to 0x9F which is not defined 
in ISO-8859-1.

-mk

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How do I force PHP to assume UTF-8 for $_GET? Martin Kotulla <mk999@gmx.de> - 2011-06-10 20:32 +0200
  Re: How do I force PHP to assume UTF-8 for $_GET? Tim Streater <timstreater@waitrose.com> - 2011-06-10 19:54 +0100
    Re: How do I force PHP to assume UTF-8 for $_GET? Martin Kotulla <mk999@gmx.de> - 2011-06-10 21:00 +0200
      Re: How do I force PHP to assume UTF-8 for $_GET? Tim Streater <timstreater@waitrose.com> - 2011-06-10 21:56 +0100
        Re: How do I force PHP to assume UTF-8 for $_GET? Martin Kotulla <mk999@gmx.de> - 2011-06-10 23:59 +0200
          Re: How do I force PHP to assume UTF-8 for $_GET? Tim Streater <timstreater@waitrose.com> - 2011-06-10 23:28 +0100
            Re: How do I force PHP to assume UTF-8 for $_GET? legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2011-06-11 03:28 +0000
  Re: How do I force PHP to assume UTF-8 for $_GET? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-06-10 19:20 -0400
    Re: How do I force PHP to assume UTF-8 for $_GET? Martin Kotulla <mk999@gmx.de> - 2011-06-17 09:27 +0200

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