Here's the situation:
I have a html page rendered by xml/xslt using encoding="iso-8859-1"
A form could be submitted using enctype="multipart/form-data" (for file uploads, well even w/o this one, stil have the problem)
Problem :
Receiving the data in POST_VARS in php, special characters like é(eacute) come scrambled with other weird chars (é) ...
This problem appeared all of sudden, wasn't here before, everything worked fine.
The variable is scrambled directly when accesssed ... since displaying it or inserting it into mysql give the same results.
I already did some insert with these special chars and still doing it on the mysql console client ... and like I said, i never had this kind of problems before.
I've read trough all the posts in forums about specialChars, but it all related to displaying html entities. Checked out http headers but didn't find much, still I think my solution reside there since this is the only place something could happen to my (eacute) ...
Question: If i submit a form (input:text) w/ special characters (eacute) and send it to php via post and access it, I should be getting (internally) the entire strings w/o modifications to it ?
Help! 🙂
