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Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms

From JohnT <john-sospam@jtresponse.co.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
Subject Re: Processing accented characters submitted from forms
Date 2014-01-03 11:37 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 18:15:50 +0100, J.O. Aho wrote:

> 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.
>>

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

Currently using ISO-8859-1.
It all displays OK, so I assumed that the characters are supported, but 
it appears the browser must be doing some magic to display them as
further investigation shows that those characters are not supported by 
the character set.

>>
>> How do people usually handle this ?
> 
> You see to that everything is stored in UTF-8 from the beginning and do
> not encode strings.

We're already using iso-8859-1 for the whole website.
It will be a lot of work to change all that, so I guess we'll have to put 
up with the odd Turkish I causing problems.


Thanks
JohnT

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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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