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Remove wierd characters in xml output

I'm trying to remove weird characters in xml output. Here's the code and output: It seems there are encoding issues. I have tried adding and this a convert from ical to xml: ...
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NSString Convert Emojis to HTML Entities

I have an iOS app and PHP web service that take a user submitted "password" and hash it. The problem arises when you enter an emoji: PHP hashes the salt + 😍 iOS hashes the salt + ...
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MSSQL + PHP encoding in htmlentities()

I'm developing in PHP with MSSQL 2000 and 2012. Some times I'm having trouble retrieving string from MSSQL and printing it in HTML. In MSSQL, string are usually varchar. I know they aren't UTF-8, ...
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htmlentities and é (e acute)

I'm having a problem with PHP's htmlentities and the é character. I know it's some sort of encoding issue I'm just overlooking, so hopefully someone can see what I'm doing wrong. Running a straight ...
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Struts 2 Display Issue with Spanish Text

I have a Struts 2 application which has a Spanish property file used by Struts s:text tags. However, the resulting pages in the web browser have gibberish characters in them like this: Contraseña: ...
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PHP: How to convert string to WINDOWS-1252 entities/characters?

I have the following string: LONDON — Britain’s unemployment rate held steady in the three months through January, reinforcing the Bank of England’s case for keeping interest rates at a record low. ...
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htmlentities() returns nothing

When sending a string to htmlentities() a result is produced in our production environment, but in my development environment, htmlentities() produces an empty string. $content = ...
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Should i convert every single possible character in my xhtml/html code? for both encoding iso-8859-1 vs utf?

Should i convert every single possible charcter in my xhtml/html code? for both encoding iso-8859-1 vs utf? If yes then is there any software to convert any needed character (which should be always ...
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HTML Entities: When to Use Decimal vs. Hex

Is there a good rule of thumb for when to use decimal vs. hexadecimal notation for HTML entities? For example, a non-breaking hyphen is written in decimal as ‑ and in hex as ‑. ...
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htmlspecialchars only works in some environments

i'm testing the exact same functionality in two different environments, one is a local development environment, and the other is a staging server. they have the exact same code. when I do a curl ...
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HTML and character encoding vs HTML Entity

When writing an HTML document, is it acceptable to use the direct special character such as the captial letter C with a cedilla underneath as regular text: Ç or to use the HTML Entity name of this ...
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Is it possible to convert a font icon back into it's private use code?

For example, I am using fontAwesome, and I have a span that contains an icon: written in html: <span class="icon">&#xf05a;</span> though once actually rendered on the page: ...
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HTML entities and charset in IE

I am displaying html entity &#10003; (a check mark: ✓) in an html document that uses iso-8859-1 for the character set. In Firefox, it displays as a check mark. In IE, it displays as a ...
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decodify � php characters

I have a DB on utf8-bin Collation. When I use this values I have a problem because the letter ò is display like � I try with utf_encode() htmlentities() base_64 ma nothing. There is a method for the ...
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HTML double left quote, htmlentities

Hi I am having trouble with a certain character in PHP. the character is “ which should return &ldquo; but when I do echo htmlentities('“'); I get &acirc;�� What Am I doing wrong??
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Why can't I get this entity code to display correctly in a browser?

I'm trying to code a UK Pound symbol to be written to a document by JavaScript, but it's code is not being translated and is instead displayed as entered. See this JSBin ...
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php e-mail to-field with strange characters

I'm having trouble getting my code in PHP to send out emails to persons with special characters in their names, like é à ö. Here's the snippet of the coding: $firstname = ...
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Bullet “•” in XML

Similar to this question I am consuming an XML product that has some illegal chars in it. I seriously doubt I can get them to fix the problem, but I will try. In the meantime I'd like a work-around. ...
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Encoding issue with XML

I'm having an issue where the following HTML is stored in my database: Carer £4.20 per person<br /> And is being output to XML with DOMDocument, as follows: $content = ...
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IE8 is not rendering some of the HTML name entities

Some HTML name entities are not rendering in IE8 and instead I can see the not rendered HTML entity! For example &scedil; or &inodot;. I found a solution to use HTML number entities such as ...
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convert arabic numeric html entities to chars via PHP

I have some string with arabic encoded and ukrainian (cyrillyc) words, like this: $string = ...
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When using UTF-8, is it better to reference character for international use using decimal or hex… and why?

When using UTF-8, which character reference is better, or more widely supported worldwide on various browsers... using decimal references or hex references? UPDATE For instance, for replacing ...
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Content type vs HTML encoding

I'm bulding a site and I've set its content type to use charset UTF-8. I'm also using HTML encoding for the special characters, ie: instead of having á I've got &aacute;. Now I wonder (still ...
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Encode only non-ASCII characters to HTML entities, keeping HTML tags

I'm pulling text from a database, processing it, and uploading it as plain text to an HTML email creator. The email tool is internal to my company. It can take simple HTML tags, but it can't handle ...
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Quotes behavior in UTF-8

I am working on a HTML5 website, using UTF-8 charset. I tried to use the (double curly quotes) “” directly on my page, but they are not appearing as they should and showing a weird character instead. ...
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Should all accented characters use html entities?

I am working with a large number of HTML files that are mostly encoded as utf-8. There are accented characters galore as many are in French. I have been converting them to HTML entities as I go, but I ...
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Converting smart quotes and other entities to exact form

I have been working with converting strings to PDFs. A typical problem that arises is the occasional 'smart quote' or other utf-8 character which becomes one or another ISO character such as –, ’, ...
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Is it better to use htmlentities when sending html emails with special characters?

I have phpmailer setup to send emails from the contact form. I have the page set to UTF-8 character encoding and specify the email encoding as UTF-8 as well within PHPMailer. This all works fine and ...
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PHP htmlentities() not working as expected

I'm having a problem with htmlentities() $txt = "árbol"; echo $txt; // outputs: árbol echo htmlentities($txt); // outputs: árbol (&Atilde;&iexcl;rbol) The second echo should output árbol ...
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Java JTextPane HTML Editor UTF-8 characters encoding

I'm using JTextPane as simple html editor. jtp=new JTextPane(); jtp.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8"); jtp.setEditorKit(new HTMLEditorKit()); When I call jtp.getText() I get nice html code ...
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Multibyte characters in URL are not rendering

I have a bugging problem. For a website I made there are search engine friendly URL's generated. The only problem is there are ß-chars in the url too. Chars like ö, ï, ä, ü etc. are placed correct. ...
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How do I show non-standard characters in the address bar?

I have a bugging problem. For a website I made there are search engine friendly URL's generated. The only problem is there are ß-chars in the url too. Chars like ö, ï, ä, ü etc. are placed correct. ...
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Why does <textarea> display <> instead of &lt;&gt;?

Shouldn't a browser's textarea display raw text? Look at the following snaps from this post, and pay attention to the <script> tag: 1- We can see the angled brackets around the script word: ...
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Converting HTML Entities in UTF-8 to SHIFT_JIS

I am working with a website that needs to target old, Japanese mobile phones, that are not Unicode enabled. The problem is, the text for the site is saved in the database as HTML entities (ie, ...
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XML charactor encoding issues with accents

I have had the problem a few times now while working on projects and I would like to know if there's an elegant solution. Problem I am pulling tweets via XML from twitter and uploading them to my DB ...
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Rendering HTML symbols/entities in Chrome

is it just me, or does Chrome no longer render HTML characters such as the &mdash;? I've tried changing the DOCTYPE, changing the character encoding meta tag, changing the character encoding ...
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Ruby HTML Entity Problem

New to Ruby and am wondering how to get the following to print just the degree symbol... require 'htmlentities' coder = HTMLEntities.new puts coder.decode('&deg;') Currently the command line ...
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Having different character formats PHP / Mysql

On my site i'm trying to get different character support for the searches, for example hebrew so something like אייל גולן but the thing is, when they make the search it's stored in the database ...
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HTML character entities and character encoding set

When including HTML entities in an HTML document, do the entities need to be from the same character encoding set that the document is specified to be using? For example, if I am going to use the ...
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Encoding issue, coverting &amp; to & for html using php

I have a url in html: <a href="index.php?q=event&amp;id=56&amp;date=128"> I need to turn it into a string exactly as: <a href="index.php?q=event&id=56&date=128"> I ...
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UTF8 charset, diacritical elements, conversion problems - and Zend Framework form escaping

I am writing a webapp in ZF and am having serious issues with UTF8. It's using multi lingual content through Zend Form and it seems that ZF heavily escapes all of these characters and basically just ...
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How to convert non-supported character to html entity in Java

Some character not support by certain charset, so below test fail. I would like to use html entity to encode ONLY those not supported character. How, in java? public void testWriter() throws ...
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Getting the € with htmlentities

I am really trying to show what htmlentities gives me, but it doesn't give & euro; for the € character. I am trying echo htmlentities(htmlentities("LISBOA-VIENA DESDE 99€ TAXAS INCLUÍDAS, ...