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problem with htmlspecialchars and non english language

Posted by: SeregaZ

February 13, 2013 10:49AM

i download and instal EasyPHP 5.4.6 (long time ago i have old version and all works fine) and when i am chekcing my old project - i see htmlspecialchars is didnt work properly with another than english languages.

example
i made some test.php file:
<?php
echo htmlspecialchars($_GET['pol']);
?>

when i start this like this:
127.0.0.1:8887/test.php?pol=test
all work fine, but if in this variable 'pol' present russian letters - this code didnt work:
127.0.0.1:8887/test.php?pol=test%CC
(%CC it is M, but russian)

but if i put this test.php on some free hosting - all work fine. but i want to make project at home, and than put to this hosting. with didnt work htmlspecialchars i cant to do this. maybe i must to edit some parametres in EasyPHP settings?

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/13/2013 10:50AM by SeregaZ.

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Posted by: Russell

February 13, 2013 07:05PM

Using urldecode and declaring the charset, your example works on my server. It also works if you specify the encoding in the htmlentites:

<html>
<head>
<META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1251">
</head>
<body>
<?php
echo urldecode($_GET['pol']);
?>
<br />
<?php
echo htmlspecialchars ( $_GET['pol'] , ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401 , 'cp1251')
?>
</body>
</html>

I'm guessing your free hosting is Russian and their servers are setup with Russian character encodings (Apache's AddDefaultCharset maybe..? Sorry, I don't know too much about changing the default encoding on Apache.)

Its probably better to use the code above as it should work on any server as you are explicitly telling it what encoding to use rather than relying on the server.

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Posted by: SeregaZ

February 14, 2013 09:27AM

thanks a lot! :) and yes, my free hosting is russian. but older version of EasyPHP work fine - so i thought i need to some additional set some kind of locale in EasyPHP... but this code is work. thanks.
<?php
echo htmlspecialchars ( $_GET['pol'] , ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401 , 'cp1251')
?>

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