changing encode of a field

[Placebo2]

i have a html form that send a text input data ($query) to a php script

the php script adds it to database ...

in php script i want to change the encode of $_get variable to UTF-8 .

i used htmlspecialchars('$query' ,'','UTF-8);
but it return 0 when i print it ...

any other way ? plz help me

[Weedpacket]

You could either use [man]iconv[/man] to convert the string...

Or, since you want UTF-8 you're probably wanting people to enter text that can be represented in UTF-8, ensuring that the page with the form on it is UTF-8 encoded. Then it wouldn't need to be translated because the browser would have sent it in UTF-8 to begin with.

Those are two suggestions.