php - html entities not converting special characters -

php - html entities not converting special characters -

i'm using htmlentities converting characteres accents, not converting type of quotes “. instead browser shows weird symbol question mark �

how can convert these kind of characteres display symbols? e.g. book called �hello colors� on table.

i've tried commands it's not working:

htmlentities($message); htmlentities($message, ent_quotes, 'utf-8'); htmlentities($message, ent_noquotes, 'utf-8'); htmlentities($message, ent_compat, 'utf-8');

thank you.

i realised weird, if next

echo $message; die();

to show white page debugging quotes displayed! happening? why it's not displaying correctly in website page? :s

looks have missed charset specification in browser ,

try adding <meta charset="utf-8"> in webpage head section . had issue display multilingual text in utf -8 did same solve issue .

hope helps

btw

for html 5 <meta charset="utf-8"> works

in case of html 4

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">

and in case of xml have specify

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

here place can info

declaring character encodings in html

there several ways setup content charset , can setup server render utf-8 can read here more info in server setup section

edit : -

after conversation in comment section ,

your problem joomla

you tested putting charset iso-8859 in webpage , works proves getting content in iso not in utf-8

probabily mysql database not in utf-8 think , why sending iso text front end , can alter db utf-8 general-ci or iso latin1 ever feasible , works suggest alter db utf-8-general-ci since have html pages header set utf-8 , solve problem .

also if cant alter db know in iso charset alter joomla template header iso charset .

which looks

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

or

in php

header('content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1');

by removing charset utf-8 declaration existing .

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