POST and Umlaut Weirdness

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ajayre Reply #1, 17 years, 3 months ago

Hopefully this is a basic mistake on my part. I am submitting a form using eForm, where one of the POST values contains a Ü (U with umlaut). When I display the posted value on a web page it is fine. When I try to use it in a snippet, it is mangled.

Here is a snippet I created:

$log = fopen("/tmp/gdtokenizer.log", "a");
fwrite($log, "Accessibility (snippet) = ".$_POST['accessibility']."\n");
return "<p>Accessibility = ".$_POST['accessibility']."</p>";

On the web page this appears as:

Accessibility = Öffentlich, drive-in

However in the log file this appears as an A with tilde:

Accessibility (snippet) = Ãffentlich, drive-in

Any ideas?

Andy

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feeela Reply #2, 17 years, 3 months ago

I think this may occurs if youre DB has another character-set than your website.

The data found on the log is stored in the database. The string which is correct is printed out directly without saving it to a db.

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ajayre Reply #3, 17 years, 3 months ago

Thanks for the reply. I’m not using a database, just sumitting a form and printing the result to a text file and the web page. sad

Andy

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feeela Reply #4, 17 years, 3 months ago

Mmh - I don’t read through the snippet-code. Sorry.

But you can also use

string htmlentities ( string string [, int quote_style [, string charset]])

to transform umlaute to html-entities.

htmlentities($_POST['accessibility']);

See also: http://www.php.net/htmlentities

Viel Spaß bei der Arbeit,

Thomas

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ajayre Reply #5, 17 years, 3 months ago

The result is that it converts the corrupted string to html entities. Here is what I now see in the log file:

Accessibility (snippet) = Ãffentlich, drive-in

:(

Andy

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Xsss4hell Reply #6, 16 years, 11 months ago

You can try my plugin, I hope it fixes your problem. I had the same problem with eForm.
http://modxcms.com/XHTMLXMLUnicode-1479.html

Currently The full Unicode 5 charset (>5000 entities) plus all HTML Entities I could find are getting used.

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ajayre Reply #7, 16 years, 11 months ago

Thanks, I’ll take a look.

Andy