Posted by Erfan Shirazi on 10/14/05 15:20

I have tried every encoding which could be found in:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mbstring.php

But nothing seems to work, I don't have any problems displaying the
funny chars in the browsers, there are some encodings which works fine
for that, the problem is when I save it to a file using fwrite().

Jochem Maas wrote:
> Erfan Shirazi wrote:
>
>> The problem is if I don't specify and encoding even an echo() on the
>
>
> specify a different encoding if you don't want html entities.
>
>> 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()
>
>
> of course it looks ok - the browser is showing you the characters that the
> html entities represent.
>
> this string: 'Ó'
> ...is an html entity.
>
>> but when saved in file it looks bad.
>
>
> time for you to find out (STFW) about html entities and encoding in general
>
>>
>> Does anybody now what I can do in order to make the string into capital
>
>
> try setting your encoding to 'UTF-8' or some such, your mileage may vary.
>
>> letters, be able to save it to a file and looking as it should look,
>> that is: Asunción and not ASUNCIÓN?
>>
>> /Erfan

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