special character "／"

[dr_freak]

Hello.Everyone.🙂

I am playing some kind of search and split process of a string.That string like '男子／男女子'.When I want to search for '／',it does work if I copy and paste the string to my php file.However,if I retrieve that string from the web and do the search again,it generates "Not found" no matter I use preg_match or strpos or whatever.Why is that?

Please drop me a line if you have any ideas.

P.S. That search pattern looks like a slash,but it's not exactly.I think they use chinese input method to input that special character "／".

[aksival]

It may have something to do with the character encoding. Have you tried using the HTML entity instead?

htmlentities( $html, ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8" )

[dr_freak]

aksival,thanks for your reply.It doesn't convert anything from my text.

Thanks for the help,though.🙂

[laserlight]

You may have to use the Multibyte String Functions to handle Chinese characters.

[dr_freak]

laserlight,thanks for your reply.You kinda like an administrator in this forum.I solved my problem last time because of your constructive advice.I much appreciate it.

By the way,I have taken a look at the link you provided.And here are the steps which I have taken to try to solve my problem:

1.Convert my retrieval content from BIG-5 to UTF-8 using mb_convert_encoding.

2.Using mb_strpos instead of strpos because of the issue in multibyte characters.

3.Step 2 is fine with satisfactory result.However,when I used mb_split, the first part of character is fine,but the last part became monster code.

As far as I know,if the information (Byte(s)) of a character couldn't retrieve completely,that character will become monster code.In other words,the character cannot be successfully displayed.

Up until now,I can't say it's a bug or not because I just guess my solution is correct.However,I can't assume my solution is correct now because I am a rookie on multibyte characters processing.

Please drop me a line if you have something to say.😉

[Shrike]

dr_freak wrote:

laserlight,thanks for your reply.You kinda like an administrator in this forum.

Well he kinda is. A mod at least :p

[NogDog]

If the text data being parsed is UTF-8, you can add the "u" modifier to your preg_*() function regular expressions.