Posted by amygdala on 08/23/07 19:27

Manuel Lemos wrote:
> Hello,
>

<snip>

>>
>> But what could be causing my characters to randomly be transformed
>> to UTF-8? Do you have any idea? I don't do it anywhere in my
>> application (except for the test I stated in my first mail)? I've
>> changed everything back to how it was though, and now it still shows
>>
>> test ëèï
>>
>> and sometimes
>>
>> test ���
>>
>> without me changing anything in the programs code? That is weird,
>> isn't it?
>
> If you use utf8_encode, you transform iso-8859-1 text in utf-8.
>
> Since you only have text in one encoding that only uses 8 bit, utf-8
> is not useful for you.

I understand this. But the point I am trying to bring across, most likely I
wasn't too clear on that, is that I don't use UTF-8 encoding anywhere
anymore. I only used it once or twice, to see if that would solve my
problem. But to be very clear about it: I removed all utf8_encode()
functions, and my code is therefor back to it's usual state. But my problem
remains the same:

Sometimes the unintended

ëèï

sometimes the intended

���

It seems to happen pretty random.

Therefor I am still stunned as to what could be causing this problem. It
looks as if something (maybe some mail gateway?) is transforming my e-mails
to UTF-8.

Do you have any other idea of what might be going on here? Your insights are
very welcome.

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