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From: "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net>
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Subject: Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 18:15:50 +0100
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On 02/01/14 16:55, 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. &#304;
> This seems to be occurring for some Turkish and Romanian characters.
>
> Is PHP doing this ?

It's not doing it by magic, something in your code does it.

> ie: is it something I can fix with settings ?

You decode it, see 
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars-decode.php

You need to have a charset which supports all of the characters, like UTF-8.

> I need to send the data in non-html emails, so I need the original
> characters.
>
> html_entity_decode() doesn't seem to work for me.
>
> How do people usually handle this ?

You see to that everything is stored in UTF-8 from the beginning and do 
not encode strings.

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  //Aho