Reading (and keeping) Accented and Special Characters

[Bernhard Georg Enders]

I'm using the php 'file' command to read the contents of an ASCII text
file to a variable. The original text file contains some accented and
special characters. The problem arises when I echo this variable: the
accented characters are messed up. And not only accented characters, for
example, the special characters ª is printed as ª. What can I do to
correct this issue? I have tried, without success, to use the 'setlocale'
command.

TIA,

Bernhard Enders.

[Pedro Graca]

Re: Reading (and keeping) Accented and Special Characters

Bernhard Georg Enders wrote:[color=blue]
> I'm using the php 'file' command to read the contents of an ASCII text
> file to a variable. The original text file contains some accented and
> special characters.[/color]

Those are not ASCII characters!
[color=blue]
> The problem arises when I echo this variable: the
> accented characters are messed up. And not only accented characters, for
> example, the special characters ª is printed as ª. What can I do to
> correct this issue?[/color]

Output the contents of the (not ASCII) text file using the same
character encoding that was used to create the file.
[color=blue]
> I have tried, without success, to use the 'setlocale'
> command.[/color]

You may be able to read whatever encoding was used for the file and
convert it:

http://www.php.net/iconv

http://www.php.net/mbstring

http://www.php.net/recode

Happy Coding :-)
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