Hi That looks like UTF-8 encoding and I think you will need the iconv extension installed to convert it easily. Tom
At 12:56 PM 18/05/2002, darcy w.christ wrote: >hi, > > i'm in a bit of a bind and i'm hoping someone can help me. i'm working > on a project in which some data was saved into a postgresql database. It > was copied from quark express and entered through a php > interface. Unfortunately some of the records have a strange character > encoding. For example, apostrophes were converted to %u2019. All the > charactes seenm to begin with %u and have 4 numbers after that. i've > seen this kind of thing in word documents. i don't know what it is, but > i think it's the extended ascii character set. Anyway, i'm not sure what > to do about it. i would like to find a way to convert this to simple > ascii permanently or else find a way for it to display correctly in html > and i'm hoping to do this in php. i would also like to find a way to > prevent this from creeping into the system. i'm sorry i don't understand > the problem well enough, and i'm sorry if i'm using the wrong words to > describe this problem. Anyway i really appreciate the help. > > >~darcy w. christ >1000camels in a courtyard > > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
