Thanks for the tip! htmlentities() didn't work, as it just converted the
in the string to amp;. 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(#1043;#1072;);
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 #1043;#1072; 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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