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blakcaps
blakcaps

Reputation: 2647

PHP Display Special Characters

When i output the text £3.99 per M² from an xml file,browser displays it as £3.99 per M².XML file is in UTF-8 format.I wonder how to fix this.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 8928

Answers (2)

Nicola Peluchetti
Nicola Peluchetti

Reputation: 76880

You should encode html entities:

you could try 

htmlentities($str, ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8");

Look here for a complete reference

If you still have problems sometimes you also have to decode the string with utf8_decode() so you can try:

$str = utf8_decode($str);
$str = htmlentities($str, ENT_QUOTES);

Upvotes: 4

Berry Langerak
Berry Langerak

Reputation: 18859

Make sure you're outputting UTF-8. That conversion sounds like your source is UTF-8, yet you're telling the browser to expect something else (Latin1?). You should send a header indicating to the browser UTF-8 is coming up, and you should have the correct meta header:

 <?php
 header ('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
 ?>
 <html>
 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
 </head>
 <body>
 <?php echo "£3.99 per M²"; ?>
 </body>
 </html>

This should work correctly.

Upvotes: 6

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