[skalie]

.... getting a lot of special characters from an rss feed, which after dicking around for far too long looking for a solution have decided to weed them out "manually", in this manner.....

Code:
	function display(){
		$this->description = str_replace ( '&', '&', $this->description );
		$this->description = str_replace ( 'ë', 'ë', $this->description );	
		$this->description = str_replace ( 'ë', 'ë', $this->description );
		$this->description = str_replace ( '’', '\'', $this->description );
		$this->description = str_replace ( '‘', '\'', $this->description );
		$this->description = str_replace ( '[image1_left]', '', $this->description );
		$this->description = str_replace ( 'Â’', '\'', $this->description );
		$this->description = str_replace ( '‘', '\'', $this->description );
		$this->description = str_replace ( '€', '€', $this->description );
		$this->description = str_replace ( 'ï', 'ï', $this->description );
		$this->description = str_replace ( 'é', 'é', $this->description );
		//$this->description = str_replace ( 'i?n', 'ë', $this->description );
		//$this->title = str_replace ( 'i?n', 'ë', $this->title );
		$this->title = str_replace ( 'é', 'é', $this->title );
		$this->title = str_replace ( '&', '&', $this->title );
		$this->title = str_replace ( 'ë', 'ë', $this->title );
		$this->title = str_replace ( 'ë', 'ë', $this->title );	
		$this->title = str_replace ( 'Â’', '\'', $this->title );
		$this->title = str_replace ( '‘', '\'', $this->title );
		$this->title = str_replace ( '‘', '\'', $this->title );		
		$this->title = str_replace ( '’', '\'', $this->title );
		$this->title = str_replace ( '[image1_left]', '', $this->title );
		$this->title = str_replace ( '€', '€', $this->title );
		$this->title = str_replace ( 'ï', 'ï', $this->title );
		$this->pubDate = substr_replace ( $this->pubDate, '',0,4);
		$this->pubDate = substr_replace ( $this->pubDate, '',12,18);
		printf('<a href="main.php?a=2">%s</a><br />',
						htmlspecialchars($this->title));
					}
}

.....all working hunky dory in Win IE6, but Firefox is getting sometimes getting an " i?n " as opposed to an " ë ".

I tried str_replace on it, but it wasn't having it (the code editted out above).

What to do? What to do? What to do?

[registered_user]

http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php

[skalie]

Originally Posted by registered_user

http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php

Indeed, it was perusing the numerous comments on that page that led me on the path of "weeding them out manually".

[skalie]

Seems like it's a header issue, throwing......

Code:
header('Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-15');

..... in to the code seems to have quietened things down a little.

[skalie]

Originally Posted by registered_user

http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php

Three days later I finally got there....

The above code has been whittled down to...

Code:
function display(){
printf('<a href="main.php?a=2">%s</a><br />',
html_entity_decode($this->description,ENT_QUOTES,'ISO8859-15'));
}

with this as the header

Code:
header('Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');

Hope that saves someone a week of hair-pulling one day.