UTF8 Problems

**narc** · 08-31-2010, 02:27 PM

Hi, I'm almost finished with my project. Now I remember but
on the Hotaru no UTF8 do?

Here's an example - Source of Hotaru

Code:

LÃ¶sung kÃ¶nnen Dialogmarketingaktionen wie PrÃ¤mien-, Cashback- oder Treueaktionen

must be converted to utf8

Code:

L&ouml;sung k&ouml;nnen Dialogmarketingaktionen wie Pr&auml;mien-, Cashback- oder Treueaktionen

Output on the website

Code:

Lösung können Dialogmarketingaktionen wie Prämien-, Cashback- oder Treueaktionen

Or do I have a slightly different setting? So it's not, anyway. I
get a huge pile of errors in the HTML validator.

**petsagouris** · 08-31-2010, 05:05 PM

Is the first line is on in a '_language.php' file ?

**narc** · 08-31-2010, 05:10 PM

mean you: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> ?

**petsagouris** · 08-31-2010, 05:25 PM

No I mean this :

Code:

LÃ¶sung kÃ¶nnen Dialogmarketingaktionen wie PrÃ¤mien-, Cashback- oder Treueaktionen

**narc** · 08-31-2010, 05:33 PM

it is the source code from my internet site. the sentence comes from an article that was created with hotaru. usually must hotaru my text but convert to UTF8, and so save in the database. should read the source code available in the Lösung, not LÃ¶sung.

**carlo75** · 08-31-2010, 06:52 PM

Have you checked collation of your database?

**narc** · 08-31-2010, 08:32 PM

yes: MyISAM utf8_unicode_ci - all tables

**narc** · 08-31-2010, 10:28 PM

any ideas?

**petsagouris** · 08-31-2010, 11:09 PM

Originally Posted by narc

any ideas?

Nobody is getting payed to solve problems apart from Nick and that is only if he takes the job.
Now in Japan it is around 08:00 am, even he didn't have his coffee yet.

Anyhow, you seem to be right, it looks like that Hotaru is not touching the strings it outputs or inputs so that it replaces the utf8 characters with the HTML characters.
For reference: charset_encode_utf8, charset_decode_utf8