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Translating odd characters in PHP?
I've got a MySQL database with user-entered text in it, and I'm using PHP to display it in a HTML web page.
There are a handful of 'unusual' text characters which appear in Word, but appear as little black diamond shapes with question marks in when shown in a web browser- things like triple dots or slanted quotation marks.
Is there a built-in PHP routine which can translate (or just remove) these characters?
3 Answers
- AnnaLv 510 years agoFavorite Answer
Showing characters in browser often dependent from languages settings of user PC and also from installed fonts.
If you cannot view some characters it often assumes that on your OS not installed needed fonts or in html / css need to set more wide wideband for font-faces
Other users, who has installed fonts, can properly view such letters
For example: if you dont have support of thai inscription on your PC you never view theses characters properly, only diamonds with questionmarks, But if i have enabled thai language support - all OK!
- vansoestLv 45 years ago
Pontius Pilate, Emperor Augustus and a couple of different humans truthfully did, however a number of of them lived on the 'fallacious' time for them to have performed something function was once claimed within the bible.
