Posted by www.j2be.com on 03/27/07 11:57

"Matt White" <mgw854@msn.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> I'm currently working on a website that can convert words from English to
> French and vice versa. My problem is this: every time I try to output a
> character like �, it comes out as either a box (in IE) or as a
> question-mark in a diamond (in FF). To get around this, I use the
> function: str_replace("�", "&eacute;", $french);. This grabs all accented
> characters and converts them into HTML characters. While I can do this,
> is there anyway to make sure these characters stay the same and do not
> need to be replaced?
>
> Matt

to convert the characters in html entities
http://www.php.net/htmlentities

to decode te entities back to the characters
http://www.php.net/html_entity_decode

Regards

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