Hey,

I've been busy with some RSS feeds, to read this feeds into another website.
But I've got a problem while displaying the information.
All the special chars, like ï and ë and ö and that stuf, are replaced with some weird chars.
How do i display this chars correctly?

I thought replacing them to HTML code would be an option, but there are so much of this special chars!
Maybe there is an function to show these special chars correctly?

Thanks in advance!

Peter Bosch

I might be wrong, but I suppose you are looking for htmlentities().

Thnx, but I've tried this one.
I also tried get_html_translation_table() but it wouldn't work neither..

Can you post your code and explain what you want it to do and what it is doing instead ?

basically you need the correct character set meta declaring so the browser "knows" what to use.

I use this code at the moment:

PHP Code:

htmlentities( ${$name}[ 'title' ][ $a ] ) 


Special characters, like ï, are not replaced by using htmlentities.
Instead of the ï the browsers puts out a very strange thing: ï

I've already tried to set the character settings on Unicode UTF-8, but when I use that the page wouldn't load correctly.

htmlentities() converts ï into ï. So I guess ${$name}[ 'title' ][ $a ] does not contain the right value.

Please post the full code.

Hmm, I've tried a bit with htmlentities and it works, but not without problems.

Some feeds are encoded ISO-8859-1 and others are encoded UTF-8.
At the feeds with encoding ISO-8859-1 there are no problems, but at the feeds which use UTF-8 it won't work :S.

Anyone knows how to display the feeds with UTF-8 encoding correctly?