Wolfram Kraus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jonas Meurer wrote: >> hello, >> >> my script selects a comment saved as VARCHAR in MySQL and displays it >> inside an html page. >> >> the problem is, that the comment contains several special characters, as >> mysterious utf-8 hyphens, german umlauts, etc. >> >> i could write a function to parse the comment and substitute special >> chars with the relevant html code, but maybe this already exists in some >> module? >> >> if not, it'll be hard work, as i've to consider many special chars, and >> at least iso-8859-1* and utf-8 as charmaps. >> >> bye >> jonas > If I understand you correctly, just put > > <meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> > > somewhere in the <head>-section of you HTML-Page.
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