[FX.php List] encode problem?

Wed Oct 8 11:47:07 MDT 2008

Roger,

You need this in the <head>...</head> portion of the page:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

...AND you need to make sure the php files are also SAVED with the proper encoding. In BBEdit that's done by selecting "Unicode (UTF-8, no BOM)" at the bottom of the window, and re-saving the file if it wasn't that way to begin with.

-Troy

> Roger
> 
> I've checked that the 'sending page is using utf-8 and have tried
> adding the following tp the top of my PHP 'action' page but still no
> luck.
> 
> header('content-type: text/html; charset: utf-8');
> 
> Roger
> 
> From: Roger Moffat 
> 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 6:02 PM
> 
> To: Roger Price ; FX.php Discussion List 
> 
> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] encode problem?
> 
> On Oct 8, 2008, at 12:55 PM, Roger Price wrote:
> 
>   An 'action' page (written wholly in PHP) which updates a FileMaker
> database has until now been working fine.
> 
>   It now returns am error 958 when '£' symbol (British Pound) is
> entered into the text field  to be updated. This is being encoded as
> '%A3' and causes the update to fail. Elsewhere in an FCKedit field the
> '£' is encoded as 'pound%3B' which works OK.
> 
>   I know that this must be an encode problem but how do I make this
> work please? 
> 
> Is the charset of the page set to UTF-8?
> 
> It needs to be for this to work correctly I believe.
> 
> Roger