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michael dot genesis at gmail dot com ¶
13 years ago
The fact that MS-word and some other sources use CP-1252, and that it is so close to Latin1 ('ISO-8859-1') causes a lot of confusion. What confused me the most was finding that mySQL uses CP-1252 by default.



You may run into trouble if you find yourself tempted to do something like this:

<?php

    $trans[chr(149)] = '&bull;';    // Bullet

    $trans[chr(150)] = '&ndash;';    // En Dash

    $trans[chr(151)] = '&mdash;';    // Em Dash

    $trans[chr(152)] = '&tilde;';    // Small Tilde

    $trans[chr(153)] = '&trade;';    // Trade Mark Sign

?>



Don't do it. DON'T DO IT!



You can use:

<?php

    $translationTable = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES, ENT_NOQUOTES, 'WINDOWS-1252');

?>



or just convert directly:

<?php

    $output = htmlentities($input, ENT_NOQUOTES, 'WINDOWS-1252');

?>



But your web page is probably encoded UTF-8, and you probably don't really want CP-1252 text flying around, so fix the character encoding first:

<?php

    $output = mb_convert_encoding($input, 'UTF-8', 'WINDOWS-1252');

    $ouput = htmlentities($output);

?>
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