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Asked: 2026-05-17T14:56:02+00:00

Lets assume the following string is entered into a form and submitted to a

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Lets assume the following string is entered into a form and submitted to a PHP script.

“€ should encode as €”

I would like to know how to actually get € to encode as € htmlentities() doesn’t do it, what voodoo is needed in order to get that to encode properly (and others like it)?

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  1. Editorial Team

    It works with htmlentities. But you need to make sure to use the proper character set as htmlentities’ default character set ISO 8859-1 does not contain that character; but ISO 8859-15 for example does:

    var_dump(htmlentities("\xA4", ENT_COMPAT, 'ISO-8859-15') === '€');  // bool(true)

    Here the "\xA4" will result in the byte 0xA4 that is the code of € in ISO 8859-15.

    So just make sure to use a character set that contains that character.

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