Decoding html entities issue

Question

I have the following line of text that I need to display

<ul><li>Complementary to cleansing with HY-ÖL®<li>Especially for irritated and sensitive skin<li>Noticeably calms and relaxes the skin</ul>

if I do the following

html_entity_decode('<ul><li>Complementary to cleansing with HY-ÖL®<li>Especially for irritated and sensitive skin<li>Noticeably calms and relaxes the skin</ul>');

the text comes ou the following way

* Complementary to cleansing with HY-�L�
* Especially for irritated and sensitive skin
* Noticeably calms and relaxes the skin

the problem is that it tries to encode the HY-ÖL® aswell and then it ends up like this HY-�L�

Confused here, please help

Gumbo · Accepted Answer · 2010-03-03 12:43:13Z

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You need to specify the character encoding you want the output in:

html_entity_decode('…', ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8')

Otherwise html_entity_decode assumes ISO 8859-1 as default.

answered Mar 3, 2010 at 12:43

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Elitmiar Over a year ago

Now I get the following Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()!

Gumbo Over a year ago

@Roland: Are you still using PHP 4? You should update/upgrade your PHP. See bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=25670

Elitmiar Over a year ago

@Gumbo Yep, php 4 is install on the server

Elitmiar Over a year ago

@Gumbo Thanx for this solution unfortunately I'm not the server admin, so no way for me to upgrade. xintron's solution solved my problem at the end. 1up for you

Gumbo Over a year ago

@Roland: What? That can’t be. Or are you using ISO 8859-1 now?

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xintron · Accepted Answer · 2010-03-03 12:41:01Z

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Check your header-encoding to see that you're sending the right encoding.

Example for utf-8 encoding.

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

answered Mar 3, 2010 at 12:41

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Sarfraz · Accepted Answer · 2010-03-03 12:41:03Z

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Try setting the page's encoding type to utf-8 eg:

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

answered Mar 3, 2010 at 12:41

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