Posted by shimmyshack on 04/26/07 21:45

On Apr 26, 1:23 pm, Timothy Madden <terminato...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Is there a function that will allow me to
> output text written in utf-8 (from db for example)
> if my document has
>
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> I mean htmlspecialchars() and htmlentities() will only convert
> characters that have an associated entity defined in HTML.
> I would also like to translate all non-latin1 characters using
> numeric references.
>
> &#355 is for a Romanian letter, ţ, for example, and letter ţ
> written in UTF-8 is not translated by htmlentities(), even if
> I give the function the optional character-set argument, 'UTF-8'
> (you can actually see the letter I typed if your system and your
> news reader understand and can display ISO latin 2 characters,
> encoded in utf-8).
>
> I mean HTML documents can use characters in the entire UNICODE
> set, even if the document source is written in ASCII for example,
> by encoding any non-ASCII character with HTML entities.
>
> Is there in PHP a function that will encode in HTML all non-ASCII
> characters, or all non-latin1 characters, or all characters not in the
> source character set ?
>
> Thank you,
> Timothy Madden

also mb_convert_encoding()

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