Thanks for the tip! htmlentities() didn't work, as it just converted the
"&" in the string to "&". However, following the trail I did get it
working the other way round, using:
html_entity_decode($row['text'], ENT_NOQUOTES, "UTF-8")
After this call, I had a real unicode text in my output file.
About the question where I saw it - both in phpMyAdmin and in my own PHP
script. It seems to be really stored as an ASCII text in the DB, as a
substr($row['text'], 0, 1) also simply outputs "&".
Thanks for your help,
Andreas
Minuk Choi schrieb:
> Have you tried feeding that through htmlentities()?
>
> e.g. echo htmlentities("Га");
>
> see if that outputs what you want on the page.
>
> -Mk
>
>
> Andreas Jakl wrote:
>
>> I've been searching for quite some time now and tried several functions,
>> but didn't find a solution. I hope somebody can point me in the right
>> direction.
>>
>> The problem:
>>
>> Russian text is entered through a web form. It's a rather badly
>> administrated external webserver with old versions of everything, so I
>> can not set the table to UTF-8. In the MySQL-Table the text gets
>> converted to something like "Га" as an ASCII text.
>>
>> Using PHP I need to get the text out into a plain text file, as a real
>> UTF-8 string.
>>
>> How can I convert this? All the conversion methods from PHP that I tried
>> failed, as the text seems to really consist of the individual ASCII
>> chars like "&", "#". Therefore, a normal to-unicode-conversion doesn't
>> change anything.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Andreas Jakl
>>
>>
>>
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