Question

I retrieve some text from my MySQL database and then I pass it through tidy like so:

$config = array(
                'wrap'                         => 0,
                'lower-literals'               => 1,
                'preserve-entities'            => 1,
                'drop-empty-paras'             => 0,
                'indent'                       => 1,
                'new-blocklevel-tags'          => 'unsubscribe, webversion'
                );

$tidy = new tidy();

$tidy->parseString($html, $config, 'utf8');

$tidy->cleanRepair();            

$fp = fopen($file_name, 'wb');

fwrite($fp, $tidy->value);

fclose($fp);

The contents then gets saved. However, when I view the text file there is some character encoding issues. In the database there is a sring that looks like this Stan’s. However, when I view that same string in the text file it looks like this Stan’s.

The field in the database and the database itself have a charset of utf8_general_ci.

What am I missing?

Answer 1

try:

fwrite($fp, utf8_decode($tidy->value));

alternatively, you may try:

fwrite($fp, utf8_encode($tidy->value));

Also try not setting the character encoding by changing your code to:

$tidy->parseString($html, $config);