[FX.php List] Encoding Issues

[Roger Price]

Steve

Thank you for this.

I found the 'charset meta tag' in an include file (thank heaven for 
includes) and changed  'iso-8859-1' to 'utf-8' . Foreign accents now behave 
properly.

Roger

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Winter" <steve at bluecrocodile.co.nz>
To: "'FX.php Discussion List'" <fx.php_list at mail.iviking.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:19 PM
Subject: RE: [FX.php List] Encoding Issues


> 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' (&ouml;)
> 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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