German Chars

[Brian56]

Hi

I have asked around for this and never got a full solution.

I have a php script that saves data to a text file. Works great for all languages except German.

Umlatt's and whatnot just are not saved. I have tried utf_8 and urlencode but nothing works.

Any ideas?

Brian

 

[vbkris]

urlencode - do u pass the values via a query string?

that mwy be the problem...

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[Brian56]

Yes in a query string

 

[gizmicek]

What are exactly the words which aren't saved. Or more specifically, what are the extended characters which cause problems?

 

[sleipnir214]

What's your output medium?

If it's HTML, you might use htmlentities()(

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

on your German-language input before saving it in the database.

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[DRJ478]

Some ideas:

German Umlaut (ä,ö,ü) and ß are part of the 8-bit ASCII set.
You say that they disappear when saving as a text file.

Most browsers URLencode GET data automatically and the GET array is URLdecoded.

That makes me think that the trouble lies within saving it as a txt file. What is the OS/filesystem?

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[Brian56]

thanks

windows98/32-bit

 

[DRJ478]

Brian56,

I replicated a simple script and wrote Umlaut to a txt file in WinXP and there was no trouble writin or reading the characters.

Where does the text come from?
Have you inspected the txt file - if so can you show the content so we can have an idea what happens to the chars?