Php utf8 to iso eur

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. It removes slightly more chars than necessary. Hope its useful. For the php-noobs like me - working with flash and php. The function is supposed to solve the problem that some languages require a different 7bit rendering of special umlauted characters for sorting or other applications.

But non-word entities cause funny results: E. The problem was it was displaying in "Windows: western europe" my native character set. It took me a long time to figure out what was going on. When using the Windows Notepad text editor, it is important to note that when you select 'Save As' there is an Encoding selection dropdown.

Since most text on the web is in UTF-8 format it could prove vital to save the. This includes the extended character set and avoids?

I was searching for a function similar to Javascript's unescape. Default is UTF You might want to wrap a function around this to make sure you aren't saving a bunch of????

For my case, It work properly. Please try to use this function if you have a problem to convert charset iso to UTF Just reverse the two lines in the part of the statement above that handles ord vals! Reversing those two lines makes it work correctly in every example I have tried. Is better to test with long text. It is very possible to broke other alphabet character.

So you should always add a ISO character to your string for this check. My advise is to use a blank space. I did this function to convert data from AJAX call to insert to my database.

Once again about polish letters. If you use fananf's solution, make sure that PHP file is coded with cp or else it won't work. It's quite obvious, however I spent some time before I finally figured that out, so I thought I post it here.

I noticed that the utf-8 to html functions below are only for 2 byte long codes. Well I wanted 3 byte support sorry haven't done 4, 5 or 6. I've just created this code snippet to improve the user-customizable emails sent by one of my websites.