[FX.php List] Encoding Issues

[Steve Winter]

Hi Roger,

As ggt will no doubt jump right in and tell you, you need to ensure that
your page is UTF-8 encoded... then these issues should go away... 

There's a really good page at
http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-changing-encoding (with
included links) which goes through all the ins-and-outs of ensuring that
your page is UTF-8 encoded end-to-end...

HTH
Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org
[mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Roger Price
Sent: 17 January 2008 12:11
To: FX.php Discussion List
Subject: [FX.php List] Encoding Issues

I have recently allowed staff to edit their details through a web form. 
Their data was originally input directly into FileMaker.  FX.php diligently 
reads the current data and displays it in the form, and the field values are

then posted to the page which updated the record.

I was trying to find out why one members record would not update. FX.php 
returns (error 958 - parameter missing). I narrowed it down to the 
'lastname' field which contained an umlaut.

The character in question ('o' umlaut) is read from Filemaker and displayed 
in HTML as '&#246'

However the value that is being updated seems to be '%26ouml%3B' (ö) 
This is obviously an encoding problem but I do not know how to resolve it.

I am using PHP 4.3.11

Please can anyone help?

Roger

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