Posted by Erfan Shirazi on 10/14/05 14:11

The problem is if I don't specify and encoding even an echo() on the
string shows strange chars when I have made a mb_strtoupper() on the
string. With HTML-ENTITIES at least it looked ok when you made an echo()
but when saved in file it looks bad.

Does anybody now what I can do in order to make the string into capital
letters, be able to save it to a file and looking as it should look,
that is: Asunción and not ASUNCIÓN?

/Erfan


Jochem Maas wrote:
> Erfan Shirazi wrote:


>
>> Hi all
>>
>>
>> I have some problems when I make a string containing the following
>> "Malmö, Asunción" to capital letters and then save it to a file.
>>
>> I use the following to make it to capital letters:
>> $msg = mb_strtoupper($msg, "HTML-ENTITIES");
>
> ^- you are telling mb_strtoupper to
> encode your 'funky' chars into html entities.
>
>>
>> And this works just fine, everything looks as it should, but when I
>> save it to a file, this is how it looks:
>> "MALMÖ, ASUNCIÓN
>
> ^\
> \---------------------- notice the names: 'Ouml' meaning. 'O umlaut'
>
>>
>> It seems it has problems with "ó" and "Ö", does anybody know how this
>
>
> it has no problems AFAICT, the characters you mention have been turned
> into html entities... these entities (in the form '&' + xyz + ';') are
> shown in the browser as the relevant char.
>
>> can be solved? I have tried some different encodings but nothing helps,
>
>
> the solution is to not convert to html entities, or (if its required) only
> converting to html entities when you want to output something to the
> browser
>
>> I'm using PHP 4.3.2.
>>
>> Thx in advance for all help.
>>
>> /Erfan
>>

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