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From: Martin Kotulla <mk999@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: How do I force PHP to assume UTF-8 for $_GET?
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:00:01 +0200
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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