[FX.php List] French and not only characters

[Dale Bengston]

Well, I got it from someone else, and I can't remember who either!  
What goes around, comes around.

Dale

On May 11, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Joel Shapiro wrote:

> Good memory / educated guess, Andy ;-)  Dale's post of this saved  
> me a lot of grief too.  And good advice to put this on all  
> submission pages.
>
> FYI to others: there are apparently different charset requirements  
> based on the FMServer/Unlimited version:
>
>> FM7SA  FM8SA
>> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
>>
>> FM5-6U US
>> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;  
>> charset=iso-8859-1">
>>
>> FM5-6U EU
>> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;  
>> charset=iso-8859-15">
>
> Best,
> -Joel
>
>
> On May 11, 2006, at 3:55 PM, Andy Gaunt wrote:
>
>> Dana,
>>
>> It is wise to encode your php pages that submit data to the  
>> database with
>> the UTF-8.
>>
>> Trust me, it is not just foreign characters that can cause a  
>> problem. I had
>> this issue on a page I did not encode when someone was copying and  
>> pasting
>> from word. The word 'oddities' characters played the same 958  
>> error with me
>> (yet I was getting the emails with the full posted information).
>>
>> Drove me nuts till I remembered the email that someone referenced  
>> here with
>> the different meta tags. I think it was Dan, Dale, Kevin...oh who  
>> am I
>> kidding. I don't remember who it was but a useful reference it was.
>>
>> Place the following at the top of your pages.
>>
>> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
>>
>> This should also alleviate any issues with the square box syndrome
>> occasionally seen with multi line text fields.
>>
>> Andy Gaunt
>> T: 407.810.4722
>> andy at fmpug.com
>> http://www.fmpug.com
>>
>> Recipient of FileMaker’s 2005 “Mad Dog” Public Relations Award
>>
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org
>> [mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Dana  
>> Benciu
>> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 10:22 AM
>> To: adenman at tmea.org; FX.php Discussion List
>> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] French and not only characters
>>
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> I tried what you are saying and ... actually I think I have problems
>> even with characters like "’" (the very inclined apostrophe) ...
>>
>> I think Andre is right with the charset utf-8 ... Yes, this only  
>> happens
>> with these characters and unfortunately my tests from before did not
>> include such characters so that's why the info got into the  
>> database and
>> I didn't see any error ...
>>
>> Dana.
>>
>> Andrew Denman wrote:
>>> Let's try that again...
>>>
>>> According to my documentation:
>>> "958" => "Parameter missing in query"
>>>
>>> Make sure the rest of your query is built correctly.  You can  
>>> check the
>> URL
>>> FX.php is sending to FileMaker by putting this on the page after  
>>> you send
>>> the query (paste the link that comes from this into your next  
>>> reply):
>>> print_r($ReturnedData['URL']);
>>>
>>> Does this only happen when you try to enter text with these special
>>> characters?
>>>
>>> Andrew Denman
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org
>>> [mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Dana  
>>> Benciu
>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 7:02 PM
>>> To: FX.php Discussion List
>>> Subject: [FX.php List] French and not only characters
>>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I am trying to insert some characters in a FM 7 database like "°"  
>>> using
>>> the FX.php package and I am getting the error #958 and the  
>>> information
>>> is not recorded. If anybody can give some useful advices/ideas, that
>>> would be much appreciated!
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot,
>>> Dana.
>>>
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>>
>> -- 
>> Dana Benciu
>> Web and IT Coordinator
>> Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)
>> 215 Spadina Avenue, Suite 150
>> Toronto, Ontario Canada M5T 2C7
>> tel: (+1) 416-594-3773 fax: (+1) 416-594-0330
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