i am uploading a string which has special characters
Example
$what = Fay King suggests ‘Miss Airheart’ as name for ‘Lady Lindy'"
and it uploads as
Fay King suggests ⬠ÜMiss Airheart⬠"! as name for â¬
What should i do to avoid this decoding error?
I have tried to use utf8_encode on the string, but it did not work out.
Please ensure, that the page that uploads the string and the one that displays the string have the same text encoding, e.g. this one:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>
In general, each page of your WebApp should have only and only one text encoding set.
have you tried a simple urlencode()?
http://php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php