Posted by J.O. Aho on 09/28/11 11:42

Don wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with the special characters on the function shell_exec
> (under Linux Debian with php 4.3.10-16):
>
> $msg = '"'."Léà t'es où?".'"';
>
> $output = shell_exec('java myClass'.' '.$msg);
>
> All the special characters in $msg like é or à are turned into the
> strange characters with shell_exec function. Whereas under the shell if
> I type :
>
> java myClass "Léà t'es où?"
>
> It works fine with all the special characters.
>
> Is there a way to walk arround this problem?
>
> Thank you in avance

You can try to put a slash infront of all special characters,

$msg = "\"L\é\à t\'es o\ù?\"";


The trouble can also be that your PHP works with unicode (utf-8) while your
system is set to use an iso-8859-X character setup.


//Aho

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