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77911997

Special Characters - Getting Practical with PHP
April 24, 2013 09:40AM

Registered: 11 years ago
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Hi Everybody, I need help.

This is not related to a portfolio... I am trying to display a £ (pound sign) from a database. I can see it on a database but when I display it in a PHP page it shows a funny character.

I have tried this:

Language: PHP
  $price = htmlentities($pricerow[';price';]);

Language: PHP
  $price = htmlspecialchars($pricerow[';price';]);

NB: on a database I have something like £1000000 but displays a funny character and a number.

any ideas how to go about doing this?

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77911997

Re: Special Characters - Getting Practical with PHP
April 24, 2013 09:44AM

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please note my Meta tag is set to UTF-8

Language: PHP
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

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77911997

Re: Special Characters - Getting Practical with PHP
April 24, 2013 10:02AM

Registered: 11 years ago
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Nevermind - its sorted thumbs up smiley

I used SET NAMES utf8 right after my database connection.

Language: PHP
 mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8");