[RESOLVED] japanese character encoding/decoding problem

[edcellgavin]

i put this as a query string in a url
& #12510;& #12452;
which displays japanese text
マイ.
In the address bar, the query string was transformed to %E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4

I was able to grab hold of this value thru the $_GET variable, but how can I resolve that value to its original form w/ is
& #12510;& #12452;

NOTE : i put a space in between the query string coz i'm having some trouble in formatting.

thanks

[vaaaska]

Would urldecode work? Trying to remember...just tossing it out there...

http://www.php.net/urldecode

[neerav]

urlencode the string before passing it into a url. In the url, & would be interpreted as an argument separator and the ; as values separator, which might be causing your problems. The resulting $_GET should be exactly what you want, if not, then add on a urldecode.