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user1343823
user1343823

Reputation: 1

contents from fopen in typo3 and special characters

I have recently upgraded my typo3-installation. The new version is running utf8 only. My old installation used iso8859-1. It is not possible to revert back to my old charset unfortunately...

I have a script which loads in data from another server via :

$handle = fopen("www.my-url.com/myloader.php", "r");
 if ($handle) {
    $contents = '';
    while (!feof($handle)) {
        $contents .= fread($handle, 8192);
        }
    fclose($handle);
echo $contents;

my problem now is that danish-special-characters are not translated properly. I have tried both utf8_encode & decode on $contents but neither works. I cannot change the script on the other server as it is provider for many other sites which still has the old typo3-install running.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 448

Answers (1)

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

Reputation: 799230

Take a GET argument in myloader.php that specifies what charset the result should be encoded in. Default to ISO 8859-1 and use iconv to translate to UTF-8 as required, or vice versa.

Upvotes: 0

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