special characters

[mmaz]

Hi,

My database (MySQL) contains values with special characters ("é", "è", etc). My problem is, they're not being displayed correctly on my web page (and in MySQL). For example, "é" is now "é".

Is there a function in php that I can use to fix that?

Thanks,

Marie

 

[DRJ478]

It is best to change special characters into HTML entities before writing them to the database. In case you do that search functionality for the database has to take the translation into consideration.

Here's a link to the function:

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