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Asked: 2026-06-10T15:34:46+00:00

This is a bit of a weird one really, and probably something I haven’t

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This is a bit of a weird one really, and probably something I haven’t done correctly, but for some reason when I am inserting or updating in MySQL (using a PHP Class to create), for some reason the text being inserted (an HTML copy of an email in this case) is only half inserted … it keeps breaking when it sees ‘–’

I do not think this is a standard hyphen since it looks ever so slightly different in the browser bar and even in this text area my hyphen ‘-‘ is narrower than ‘–’. I’ve tried HTML Entities, but will not convert, so an suggestions when dealing with this troublesome character?

Though I should probably say, if I use PHP My Admin to directly insert the HTML body (exactly the same formatting, everything gets inserted. I’ve even tried str_replace to remove it with no luck. I’ve also replaced words with a lot more words but that worked (yet it still cut off before that character showed…..

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  1. Editorial Team

    You are using a “dash” not to be confused with a hyphen. Look at the difference: – –

    There are many kinds of dashes:

    figure dash    (‒)  U+2012              
en dash        (–)  U+2013
em dash        (—)  U+2014  
horizontal bar (―)  U+2015
swung dash     (⁓)  U+2053

    You can try to str_replace("–", "-", $query); for each type before executing the query and see if that solves your problem, but really you should look into possibly doing a utf8_encode() and then setting your database field to use UTF8.

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