Comments on: Handling UTF-8 in JavaScript, PHP, and Non-UTF8 Databases

By: Johnny

Johnny — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:48:06 +0000

Complete and better solution:

function encode_utf8(s)
{
if (window.encodeURIComponent)//check fn present in old browser
{
return unescape(encodeURIComponent(s));
}
else
{
return escape(s);
}
}

function decode_utf8(s)
{
if (window.decodeURIComponent)//check fn present in old browser
{
return decodeURIComponent(escape(s));
}
else
{
return unescape(s);
}
}

By: Yardboy

Yardboy — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:54:36 +0000

So very helpful – gracias!

By: Kashif

Kashif — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:08:14 +0000

Really good post indeed, It helped me find and solve UTF-8 problem with my current project. Thanks Dan

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:01:03 +0000

Hi, If you use the encodeURIComponent in javascript to store a text in the database, what do you use to return teh same decoded text in a java program. I have use decodeURI but does not seem to work. What it returns is in ANSI format. I do know how to change from ANSI to UTF8 but no everything seems to be supported and sometimes part of the string are lost.

By: utf8 to ascii

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By: Chasing Amy » J.F. vs. UTF-8

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By: Mone

Mone — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:30:10 +0000

great post.
Just a little note, the first line of the javascript code must be
if (window.encodeURIComponent) {
otherwise browsers without the encodeURIComponent method will throw an exception instead of execute the escape method.

By: Chasing Amy » Blog Archive » J.F. vs. UTF-8

Chasing Amy » Blog Archive » J.F. vs. UTF-8 — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:15:43 +0000

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By: Maarten

Maarten — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:49:32 +0000

Note that the html_entity_decode($string, ENT_NOQUOTES, ‘UTF-8′); trick doesn’t work in php4 (somehow they fixed it in 5, and refuse to backport it seems), but this function might be a good workaround mb_decode_numericentity()

By: pascal

pascal — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:11:18 +0000

Extremely useful and clear post, that summarizes utf8 in a great way!!

I just had to add
header(‘Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8′);

cos I dont want to edit the apache settings to add the correct charset