I know, that PHP PCRE functions treat strings as byte sequences, so many sites suggest to use /u modifier for handling input and regex as UTF-8. But, do I really need this always? My tests show, that this flag makes no difference, when I don’t use escape sequences or dot or something like this. For exam…
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Encoding issue with PHP while writing in a .csv file
I’m working with a php array which contains some values parsed from a previous scraping process (using Simple HTML DOM Parser). I can normally print / echo the values of this array, which contains special chars é,à,è, etc. BUT, the problem is the following : When I’m using fwrite to save values in…
The Content-Type HTTP header is missing charset attribute
During security check, its reported that “The Content-Type HTTP header is missing charset attribute” is missing for js and css file. Please check below screenshot: My HTML Was look like below before …
How to convert String with “ (ISO-8859-1) characters to normal (UTF-8)characters?
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i have lot a raw html string in database. all the text have these weird characters. how …
Convert � � to Emoji in HTML using PHP
We have a bunch of surrogate pair (or 2-byte utf8?) characters such as �� which is the prayer hands emojis stored as UTF8 as 2 characters. When rendered in a browser this string renders as two ?? example: I need to convert those to the hands emjoi using php but I simply cannot find a com…
Tcpdf issue with display hindi language font
I am using Tcpdf PHP library to generate PDF. I got issue with display in Hindi language fonts in generated PDF. I have all things like fonts characters standards etc.. properly but my generated PDF contains ?????? instead of Hindi fonts. please have a look I have included my code here. please help to solve m…
� character from ldap
i am getting some strange characters form ldap server when i search some user info.if value contains turkish characters like ‘ç’ it replaces to ‘�’.in this situatian i convert string to utf-8 than str_replace to fix it.My function is that; But sometimes that causes some problem , so i …
Values inserted into database show weird characters
I am taking data in an xml feed from readability and inserting it into a database and then outputting it. The charset of the xml feed is UTF-8, my html page headers are also UTF-8. I even saved the …
PHP Convert Windows-1251 to UTF 8
I have a small html code and I need to convert it to UTF-8. I use this iconv(“windows-1251”, “utf-8”, $html); All text converts correctly, but if text for example in tag …, then …
PHP, convert UTF-8 to ASCII 8-bit
I’m trying to convert a string from UTF-8 to ASCII 8-bit by using the iconv function. The string is meant to be imported into an accounting software (some basic instructions parsed accordingly to SIE standards). What I’m running now: This works for accounting software #1, but software #2 complains…