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

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On 10.06.2011 22:56, Tim Streater wrote:
>
> OK, maybe I was asking the wrong question. What do you mean by "access"
> in "When I now access the parameters via $_GET in my PHP script, ..."?
> Have you checked that when the Win-app sends U+3563 you get three bytes
> of data (0xE3, 0x95, 0xA3) in your PHP script? What are you then
> intending to do with those Chinese characters?
>

The Windows app sends three UTF-8 encoded characters. The PHP $_GET 
array only returns two, one being dropped by PHP because it considers 
out-of-range characters (in its ISO-8859-1 mind) incorrect.

My script needs to accept arbitrary UTF-8 sequences but PHP drops these 
characters because it (correctly, in its ISO-8859-1 mind) thinks they 
are invalid. But in the UTF-8 system, they are valid.

I need a way to tell PHP that the sequence is UTF-8 before I access it. 
As soon as my script reads something that PHP considers ISO-8859-1, the 
damage is done. iconv back to UTF-8 won't help me, I cannot unscramble 
scrambled eggs.

-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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