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Problem with accents - El Forum - 01-13-2011
[eluser]caperquy[/eluser]
Hello
I have the following problem : within my controller I read a data from my database, let say écologie which I put into a variable $a.
When I echo $a (echo "value of a : $a <br />"
I get écologie which is exactly what I expect.Now I want to replace the first character with e (no accent)
I thefore catch that character with the instruction $car1=substr($a,0,1);
If I echo $car1 (echo "value of car1 : $car1 <br />"
I do not get é as expected but rather an unreadable character (�)I suspect a problem with the character sets but I cannot find where.
Could someone give me a clue ? Thanks in advance
CapErquy
Problem with accents - El Forum - 01-13-2011
[eluser]tomcode[/eluser]
PHP functions like substr() are only safe to use for ASCII chars, have a look at Multibyte String