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@NogDogJul 07.2021 — #My first thought is to just apply
@NogDogJul 07.2021 — #Oh, by the way, you may be able to fix it simply by specifying UTF-8 as the character set in your HTML:
If that works, you still may want to applyhttps://php.net/htmlspecialchars for details.
Outputting special characters
I wrote a script that will output .csv data into a HTML table to then copy and paste into a website. My problem is that some of the characters are displaying as �. I tried running the data through the following function, but it doesn’t correct the problem.
`function filterData($data) {
$data = trim($data);
$data = str_replace(‘±’, ‘±’, $data);
$data = str_replace(‘°’, ‘°’, $data);
return $data;
}
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to convert these characters into something readable?
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@NogDogJul 07.2021 — #My first thought is to just apply htmlentities()[code=php]
echo htmlentities(trim($data));
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@NogDogJul 07.2021 — #Oh, by the way, you may be able to fix it simply by specifying UTF-8 as the character set in your HTML:[code=html]
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
. . .
[/code]If that works, you still may want to apply
htmlspecialchars()htmlentities()<&