why is php returning a '?' for...

Anon

For my site, I have to deal with UTF-8 encoding characters. In some case, I have to find the right value of one character in order to display it correctly in the broswer. <b>For some reasons, php will return a '?' when it reads a string such as this: '脉'. Why won't it just return the exact string (&#33033😉 if it couldn't regconize?

fahhem

your character is in a font unknown to many browsers and also to php. you need to have the font set to your font and to have the browser download the font in an earlier page.

Anon

hm...
I forgot that the broswer would display something weird if you didn't set it into UTF-8 encoding. Well, the actuall string value is (&,#,33033,😉 without commas.

Anon

That's not a 1-byte char, which is what PHP uses. But I don't think it is PHP who displays the '?' - I think it's the browser. Check the source code that is sent to your browser and see if there's a '?' there - I don't think so.

Diego