try doing this with your array before inserting it into the DB
foreach($insert_array as $key => $var){
$new_arr[$key] = iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1", $var);
}It can be that your array has a different coding than UTF-8 check the manual for the htmlentities function, but i'm pretty shure that should solve it.
I2eptilex
Monty wrote:
I'm having a problem figuring out how to deal with foreign characters in text that was copied from an MS Word document and pasted into a form field.
I'm not how sure this is getting stored in the MySQL database, but, when I run htmlentities() on this text, each foreign character is converted into 2 other foreign characters that don't at all represent the original.
For example, a lowercase u with an umlat over it (ü) is somehow displayed as an uppercase A with an umlat over it followed by the 1/4 symbol after parsed by htmlentities(). A lowercase o with an ulmat displays as an uppercase A with an umlat over it followed by the paragraph symbol. It seems that the uppercase A w/umlat is a constant, and the next character changes.
The ord() function returns the same number for all of these foreign characters: 195. So, I'm not sure what's happening with these foreign characters, and if there's any way to convert them to proper htmlentities before being displayed in a browser. I thought htmlentities would do this, actually.
Thanks!
Monty.
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