Re: convert special characters.

On Aug 9, 2012, at 5:02 PM, Govinda wrote:

>>
>> No one?
>> Not even a link I can go look this up myself with?
>>
>> I have successfuly converted before, but this time the company
>> is in the netherlands and their special characters are doing this.
>> Also, I have the database set to UTF-8, but when I check the charset:
>>
>> $charset = mysql_client_encoding($con);
>>
>> it returns latin1?
>>
>> Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong here?
>> Not looking for someone to do it for me.
>> Just some help figuring out which way to look.
>>
>> Why is htmlentities() converting wrong?
>
>
>
> How are you determining that you are using UTF-8 charset?
> I think you want to set everything to UTF-8..   the database, the  
> table (or even finer in case any setting has e.g. a column set to  
> another charset), the script files, the HTML output, the browser,  
> *everything*.
> Just because e.g. one sets the charset in the browser does not mean  
> that Apache (or whatever webserver you are using) is set to serve  
> that charset.
>
> -Govinda


I believe when the table was set up.
This was handed off from others.
I will ask. Thanks for the heads up on the difference.

Best,

Karl DeSaulniers
Design Drumm
http://designdrumm.com


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