non-standard characters being converted to question marks

[miraclemaker]

Has anyone seen anything like this before?

text that is submitted through a form on a page I'm working on can contain non-html standards compliant characters like:

'…' (elipse)
'`' (backticks)
'®' registered trademark symbol
etc

I want to be able to convert these characters to their proper html code, but when I print out the value from the post array all these characters have been replaced by question marks!

Very strange. Can anyone suggest anything?

 

[likelylad]

if your are using the url to transmit the data maybe the urlecode and urldecode functions might work

 

[miraclemaker]

I'm not, the data is being posted.

I think the problem is being caused by the default character-set of my html client (in this case Opera), as I don't have the problem in IE.

 

[skiflyer]

Yes, it is the default character set... are you sending completely well formed HTML? As in, are you including the content-type=... header?

You're asking to use characters above the 128 standard ascii characters, there are a slew of different character sets up there, hence you need to define one.

-Rob

 

[miraclemaker]

Yes, I'm using the iso-8859-1 character set.