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Lupo
Lupo

Reputation: 324

german Umlaute break when form is submitted

i have a very strange phenomena trying to migrate an older php project from iso-8859-1 to utf-8

when typing a german umlaut like "äöüß" into a textfield an submitting it i receive broken ones like "äöüÃ�"

header is set to 

<?php header("Content-Type:text/html;charset=UTF-8"); ?>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />

the form is set to 

<form accept-charset="utf-8">

and so on - i tried everything i could think of - anybody got an ide or experience with an alike problem?

best regards, Lupo

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2733

Answers (2)

KarlosFontana
KarlosFontana

Reputation: 188

I'm glad you managed to find a solution. And if you don't want to worry about so many different charset codings or if htmlentities doesn't work for others, here the alternative: I used mysqli DB connection (and PHPV5) Form post for writing/inserting to MySQl DB.

$Notes = $_POST['Notes']; //can be text input or textarea.


$Notes = str_replace('"', '&quot;', $Notes);  //double quotes for mailto: emails.  
$von = array("ä","ö","ü","ß","Ä","Ö","Ü"," ","é");  //to correct double whitepaces as well
$zu  = array("&auml;","&ouml;","&uuml;","&szlig;","&Auml;","&Ouml;","&Uuml;","&nbsp;","&#233;");  
$Notes = str_replace($von, $zu, $Notes);  
echo " Notes:".$Notes."<br>" ;  
$Notes = mysqli_real_escape_string($link, $Notes); //for recommended mysqli DB connection.
//$Notes = mysql_real_escape_string($Notes); //for old deprecated mysql DB connection.

// mysqli_real_escape_string Escapes special characters in a string for use in an SQL statement

echo " Notes:".$Notes ;  //ready for inserting  
//Optinal:

$charset = mysqli_character_set_name($link); //only works for mysqli DB connection printf ("To check your character set but not necessary %s\n",$charset);

Upvotes: 0

Lupo
Lupo

Reputation: 324

i found a solution thats working for my case:

i had to change the accept-charset from UTF-8 back to ISO-8859-15 then the field values look ok again - to be able to process the received data i have to utf8_encode them - seems a bit weird but it works fine now.

Thank you all for your time and Jukka for the help.

best regards, Lupo

Upvotes: 1

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