Question

I am $_POST’ing the following headline from a form:

Google’s New Partner Android Update Initiative: Very Promising — Maybe; We’ll See

And on the handler page, if the first thing I do is

  echo "<pre>";
  print_r($_POST);
  die();

I see:

Google’s New Partner Android Update Initiative: Very Promising — Maybe; We’ll See

I understand that there are functions to convert & escape characters and their HTML equivalents, but how can I ensure that this content is added into the $_POST in the correct encoding?

Cheers,

Answer 1

not sure if that helps, but it seems like the UTF-8 encoding got mixed up (control characters seem somewhat familiar to me …). Try to output with utf8_encode() or utf8_decode().