Hi,
I had a problem displaying single and double quotes, and fixed the problem with addslashes and stripslashes.
Now I am stuck with another problem, which displays something like as follows for a foreign language character:
& # 243
How can I make foreign language characters appear correctly?
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
BTW, please kindly refer to the following steps I followed:
I stored data with addslashes and retrieved and displayed with stripslashes as follows:
$toshow = stripslashes($RetrievedFromTable);
echo $toshow; // displays the character correctly
$myemail = "test@test.com";
mail($myemail, $toshow, $toshow, "From: $myemail"); // shows funny characters like (& # 243) on the subject line and in the body of the email as well.
I have no idea why it shows correctly on "echo" but fails on email.
Many thanks in advance.
[Help] Displaying foreign language characters
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surfinglight
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Most probably you've received the data in this form. It's called html entities.
Whether or not user agent (browser) sends the data in form of html entities, I believe, is controlled both by the character set of the page, containing the form you used to gather the data and the form's accept-charset attribute. Make sure you specify the proper character set in Content-type header. If you don't know the language of the data in advace, natural selection of character set would be the UTF-8.
Whether or not user agent (browser) sends the data in form of html entities, I believe, is controlled both by the character set of the page, containing the form you used to gather the data and the form's accept-charset attribute. Make sure you specify the proper character set in Content-type header. If you don't know the language of the data in advace, natural selection of character set would be the UTF-8.
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surfinglight
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This was what I did:
-I insert data with addslashes()
-Retrieve it using SELECT statement, and send an email as follows:
$toshow = stripslashes($RetrievedFromTable);
$toshow = utf8_decode($toshow);
$toshow = html_entity_decode($toshow, ENT_NOQUOTES);
$emailaddress = "test@test.com";
mail($emailaddress,$toshow,$toshow ,"From: $emailaddress\nContent-type: text/html; charset=utf-8\n");
Still receiving & # 243; in a subject line of the email.
What am I doing wrong?
-I insert data with addslashes()
-Retrieve it using SELECT statement, and send an email as follows:
$toshow = stripslashes($RetrievedFromTable);
$toshow = utf8_decode($toshow);
$toshow = html_entity_decode($toshow, ENT_NOQUOTES);
$emailaddress = "test@test.com";
mail($emailaddress,$toshow,$toshow ,"From: $emailaddress\nContent-type: text/html; charset=utf-8\n");
Still receiving & # 243; in a subject line of the email.
What am I doing wrong?