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Sep 16.2008

Hello! I have a question regarding the cURL library for PHP. I am trying to use it to fetch a web page. Unfortunately, this page was written poorly, and displays the special characters (such as &#225? directly in the source file (it doesn’t use the html escape codes). When I try to load and echo this, all of the foreign characters are displayed as �. I tried the method suggested on [url]http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php[/url] but it didn’t seem to work for me. Does anyone know how I can properly escape these within my PHP script so they will end up displaying properly?

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@svidgenSep 16.2008 — You might get some luck running the data returned from cURL through htmlentities(): http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php.

I haven't had a chance to try the function myself. So, if it works for you, please let us know.
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@gnu1983authorSep 16.2008 — Thanks for the help. I got it working.

Running htmlentities on it made it escape all of the html, so the source of the html page I was going to display was shown instead of the actual page. After running it through htmlentities, I immediately ran it through html_entity_decode, with UTF-8 encoding. The resulting code looked like:
[code=php]$page = html_entity_decode(htmlentities(curl_exec($url)), ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');
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Thanks a lot!
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