Special Characters anyone ?

Anon

Hi,

I'm a beginner and have a big problem here.
This question has certainly been asked a thousand times but I can't find a simple answer anywhere...
Here is the plan...

<?php
$Text = "Zéphir est né le quinzième jour de l'année";
?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd">

<head>
	<title>Untitled</title>
	<meta name="generator" content="BBEdit 6.1.1">
</head>
<body>

	<?php
	echo $Text;
	?>

</body>

...and I get crappy, non accentuated characters in my WebPage.

So, my qestion is :

When I declare a String containing accentuated characters (like "é"), how do I convert this in "&eacute" simply without some complicated script ?

Thanx ;-)

Anon

I meant eacute with an & before the eacute... (the scipt converted my character)

maxsslade

Hey,

try the echo function with double quotes, e.g.

<?php
$Text = "Zéphir";

echo"$Text";

I have tried this on my webserver and it works with no & characters.

Anon

Doesn't seems to be working for me ;-(
I still get those crappy characters...

Anon

Have ypu checked the manuals ? In the string section you'll find

get_html_translation_table
htmlentities
htmlspecialchars

who gives all the è you want....

Anon

I know ! I have tried every combinations with those function, but nothing seems to work (they only convert quotes, slashes, etc...)
;-(