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POGet non-UTF-8-form fields as UTF-8 in PHP?
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copied!<p>I have a form served in non-UTF-8 (it’s actually in Windows-1251). People, of course, post there any characters they like to. The browser helpfully converts the unpresentable-in-Windows-1251 characters to html entities so I can still recognise them. For example, if user types an →, I receive an <code>&#8594;</code>. That’s partially great, like, if I just echo it back, the browser will correctly display the → no matter what.</p> <p>The problem is, I actually do a htmlspecialchars () on the text before displaying it (it’s a PHP function to convert special characters to HTML entities, e.g. & becomes <code>&amp;</code>). My users sometimes type things like <code>&mdash;</code> or <code>&copy;</code>, and I want to display them as actual <code>&mdash;</code> or <code>&copy;</code>, not — and ©.</p> <p>There’s no way for me to distinguish an → from <code>&#8594;</code>, because I get them both as <code>&#8594;</code>. And, since I htmlspecialchars () the text, <em>and</em> I also get a <code>&#8594;</code> for a → from browser, I echo back an <code>&amp;#8594;</code> which gets displayed as <code>&#8594;</code> in a browser. So the user’s input gets corrupted.</p> <p>Is there a way to say: “Okay, I serve this form in Windows-1251, but will <em>you</em> please just send me the input in UTF-8 and let me deal with it myself”?</p> <p>Oh, I know that the good idea is to switch the whole software to UTF-8, but that is just too much work, and I would be happy to get a quick fix for this. If this matters, the form’s enctype is "multipart/form-data" (includes file uploader, so cannot use any other enctype). I use Apache and PHP. </p> <p>Thanks! </p>

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